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1705 I 9°5 

A HISTORY OF 

Brookline, Massachusetts 

FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF MUDDY RIVER 
UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME 



I 630- I 906 



COMMEMOKAl IM. I 111 



TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TOWN 

Based on the Early Records and Other Authorities and Arranged by 

Leading Subjects. 



CONTAINING PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES OF THE TOWN'S PROMINENT MEN- 
PAST AND PRESENT; ALSO ILLUSTRATIONS OF PUBLIC 
BUILDINGS AND RESIDENCES 



published by 
The Brookline Press Company 

brookline. mass 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Introduction 

politicai \nd territorial character 

HlSTi IRII \l I'l RSl'l CTIV1 "1 I II I i'' PWN 

Cenesls vxd Development of khe Town Government 

PlIYSTi \i I SOLUTION t>l III! I'lKKlh'KN Ol BROOKLINI 

Votes on Punch Bowi 

I'm P \i;k Systi m of Brooki i\i 
i kline's Water System 

Hi oki i\ i 's S w 1 1 \i;\ System 

Bri I0K1 1 N I > ARTIST!! DeVEI.I 'I'M EXT 

l'n i. I 'in i;i ii \^ \ l'i iw \ Institution 

I'll I t 'in k. 11 \> \ N't 1 1 I \ I \k'\ ORG \\l ' \ I ln\ 

S( lit it l| s \M> KlM'l \ [TON .... 

likookl l\ I I'l l.l It I .ll'.i; \ k\ 

Ml'XICIP.M \NI) SotTAl CONVENIENT] 

Bri IOKI.1XI ( 'l M I I I RIES .... 

BROOKI l\l BATH HoUSI ^'t - I I \l . 

Kk't IOK1 IM I'' >U \ GOVERNMENT 

Brooki.ini Polici Department 
Bri ioki [XI FlRl I in 1 \i; ['Ml \ i . 

Tiir \ i wsp \i'i rs i >i Brooki ixe . 
Post Okfici 
Ci crs \ni> Sociai < >rg \niz\tions 

v Ski n.ERs oi- Bri " iklini 
iMi' Families vxn Noted Pi rsons 
Klixtric Railway Systems of Brooklinf . 

( 'HRONi i| i I . \ Ol I CENTS 1\ BROOKI INE . 

Brook line's Hi Centenary . 
i >u \ i ion by Hon. 1 1 1 \i;\ Caboi Lodgi 
■i !'ii it \i Ski rcHES \nd Portraits 
Brooklini Streei Department 
Brooki.ini Water Department 

CiAS VXD I'l ECTRIC LIGHTING 

Members oi Town Government for Year iqo6 
Fist hi Selectmen i\ Brooklini From 170(1 ro 1006 
Representatives to M\ss\chusetts Stati Legislatcri From 17 

In in -.11 PiKiHikiiM Pi mil Library From 1857 ro 1 



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PUBLISHER'S Pkl I NCI 

The Brool line Press wishes to thank our public-spirited residents, men and women, 
without whose generous co-operation this work could not have been published. We 
have endeavored to make not onlv an exhaustive history oi the town but to present .1 
contemporarv view as well. Ii would be, of course, impossible in am one volumi 
publish the portraits and sketches of even' citizen who has furthered the progress oi 
Brookline, but we feel that those which do appear are representative of many who 
ire ii"i tin luilcd. 



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BROOKLINE 



THE RICHEST TOWN IN THE WORLD. 



THERE are only six cities and no in- 
dividual towns in the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts with a larger tax list 
than the town of Brookline. The town 
of Milton is the only one approaching it in the 
value of its taxable property, ami the relative value 
on the tax lists of the two towns is as $65,- 
000,000 is to $20,000,000. Watertown, West- 
l l( .l,l Detlham, Manchester, Framingham, Ply- 
mouth, Falmouth, Weymouth, N'atick, Attleboro, 
Marblehead and Amesbury, all delightful colonial 
towns, each brin- to the Commonwealth a tax in- 
come of less than one tenth the amounl contri- 
buted by Brookline. 

When the town of Brookline was bom mi No- 
vember 13, 1705, Massachusetts bad over sixty 
towns in her family ranging in age from one to 
eighty-five years. The same form of town govern- 
ment inaugurated at the birth of each has been 
preserved by Brookline and carried nut in the 
town meetings of cad, year. The officers taking 
part in the celebration of the two hundredth 
anniversary of Brookline's birth, November 13, 
[005, were elected to office and performed the 
same functions as did i1m.sc chosen in 1705 to 
stand sponsors t<> the infant town. The voting 
list df the town lias increased to 1,300 and the 
limits of the town include the villages of Cottage 

1 .inn, Fongw I and Reservoir Station. Its 

population at the time of the celebration of its 
•w,, hundredth birthday numbered over 23,000. 
Brookline is unique, as a Massachusetts town, 

in that scarcely any manufacturingis d ■within 

its limits, the only exception being electric motors 
and philosophical instruments. Its wealth and 
importance is due mainly to its natural and ac- 
quired beauty, and its healthfulness a- a residen- 
tial town. The private fortunes of its inhabi- 
tants furnish the means for its multiplying wealth 
of attractions as a place of suburban residence, 
and unlike most Massachusetts towns, no rich 
corporations are sheltered within its borders. 



To see Brookline to advantage the visitor to Bos- 
ton and it:- suburbs must take a carriage or auto- 
mobile, passing from the Back Bay, by way of the 
Fenway, within it- gates, and through it- quiet 
and beautiful shaded streets, avenues and boule- 
vards, over perfectly constructed mads, along 
circuitous routes, gradually rising to the summit 
of its beautiful lulls. There is -hade, seclusion, 
comfort m every mile of the drive. Back from 
,|,e roads on every available building site and 
dotting the hillsides slopes are innumerable private 
dwellings. Each home has an extended view, 
unobstructed by it- neighbor and separated from 
,, by no defined boundary line. You now have a 
commanding view of the beautiful cities and 
towns contiguous to Boston, as they lie at your 
feet or cover the lull- of the surrounding neighbor- 
hood. The beautiful Charles River winds its way 
between the hill-, and the best examples of modern 
residential architecture are exhibited in elegant 
a,,d princely residences, many with extended 
park.- and all with ample grounds laid oul and 
beautified by the applied art of the most -killed 
landscape architects of the world. To add to the 
charm, a welcome is extended by the hospitable 
host or hostess of these beautiful park- and 
grounds to the stranger visitor-, who are through 
this courtesy enabled to visit more at their leisure 
the copies of the world-renowned gardens.conscrva- 
tories and parks of the old world, touched up by 
tll e modernized skill of the landscape artist, who 
ha S adapted the old to the new and added many 
examples of wealth, in shrub, tree, fruit and flow- 
er- to the grounds and conservatories, not found 
in the besl examples of England, France. Ger- 
many or Italy. In this way Brookline is always 
able to maintain the reputation for hospitality, 
accorded to Boston, in enabling the stranger 
within its -ales to view the best examples of 
modern home environments, a- well as the places 
of historic interest, and the museums and libra- 
ries of art and literature preserved and exposed to 



BR( H )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

view and use in and ahoul the modern Athens. The result lias been thai the money of the town 

It is hard to find an uninteresting locality with- has been well expended in administration and in 

in its borders. public improvements; and the latter have so 

It is the purpose of this work, dedicated to the added to and developed the natural features of the 

men and women who founded, progressed and territory that today the town in its length and 

idealized this banner suburban town of the greal breadth has few equals and nn superiors in New 

citv of Huston and state of Massachusetts, to England tor beauty and picturesqueness in it- 

trace, as we at'e ]ia--iiiL r the two hundredth mile- residence localities, which constitute the greater 

stone on the journey toward perfection, the his- part of its area. 

torv of this evolution, and through the lives of the Situated southwest of the central part of the 

men who wrought this great work, to show to the original peninsula on which the old town and 

world the power that intelligently directed effort. city of Boston is located, the town of Hrookline 

applied to a definite purpose, can exert in the approaches in it^ nearest part to but little more 

direction of making beautiful the suburban than two miles in a direct line from tin- State 

towns of great cities. House, while its most remote boundary i-. onh a 

little over -i\ miles away. The territory is ob- 
long m shape, between three and four miles in 
length bv about a mile and a half wide, containing 



Political and Territorial Character. 



'ldie town of Hrookline has several unique dis- an area of about six square mile--, and is a rolling 
Unctions. It is said to be the richest town m the country with many hills, the highest in the west- 
1 mted State-, the best governed and the most ern part rising to between three and four hundred 
beautiful. Geographically, it is a part of the feet above tide water. On the east, the territory 
territorv of the metropolitan city of Boston, and i< bounded by the Charles River, which was 
10 all intent- and purposes of community and originally the town boundary, but in order to pro- 
soda] lite it i- a- much an integral part of that vide for the extension of Commonwealth Avenue 
citv as an\ other section within the same radius. ai the time of the Hack Bay improvements, a 
I'nlike any other near-by suburb of Boston, strip along the river was ceiled to Boston. < In 
however, while it has a population larger and more the southeast, between Brookline and Roxbury. 
dense than manv Massachusetts cities, it i- an in- was a narrow and shallow tidal estuary, known as 
dependent town, governing itself under the forms Muddy River, or brook, into which a fresh water 
of the old New England town meeting, inherited brook flowed, and in t urn Muddy River debouched 
from our Germanic ancestors. It is. moreover, into the Back Bay. as the shallow tidal basin be- 
so well governed. — or perhaps the better word to tween Brookline and tin' Boston peninsula was 
use would be. Administered — that in these days named. The shores of Muddy River and the Back 
when there is so much said, and proved, in regard Bay were low lying salt marshes, and on the 
i,i corrupl practices existing in cities, it is remark- Brookline side the_\ were backed by meadow laid 
able for the cleanness and efficiency with which suitable for grazing and farming purposes. 1 his 
its business has been conducted. This is largely substantially was the physical condition of the 
due to the fact that its people have applied mod- section of country now constituting the town ol 
ern ideas to the town meeting principle: have Brookline. at the time of the settlement of Boston 
conducted their gatherings a- orderly assemblies, and long afterward. It was a beautiful, pictures- 
and prevented the intrusion of unauthorized que. hilly region, bordered by fertile meadows, 
person- or any mob-like tactics: and while dele- and they in turn faced by salt marshes and the 
gating authority to the competent and instructed tidal river and basin, the latter separating the 
for administration and investigation, have al- region from the town of Boston, so that in order to 
ways retained in their own hands the ultimate reach the locality by land a long detour had to be 
decision of public questions. This is the referen- made around the head of the river. The locality 
diim in actual operation: while the projection of and the village which sprang up here took its 
any public question into the arena of debate in name from the tidal river, and until the incorpora- 
town meetings i- obviously easy, so that here is tion of the town was known by the name of Muddy 
the principle of the initiative, also in operation. River. 



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Historical Perspective of the Town. 

Brooklino is pari and parcel of Boston, histori- 
cally. Her early inhabitants and landholders 
were citizens of Boston, and for seventy-five 
years the region u a- a par) of the town of I lust mi. 
Consequently Brookline, as an integral pari of old 
Boston, has .'in heritage in its splendid histon 
which il shares equally with all the surrounding 
country. The earlv histon of Boston is the most 



council and in action, lis history leads mil to and 
largely includes thai of the whole of New England, 
and it has been the germinating poinl of a large 
section of American life. The influences in the 
domains of literature and art diverging from Bos- 
ton have I ii and are greater than from anv 

other American city. Talented sons of the old 
Bay State have from many standpoints, in sober 
prose, in stately orations, in graceful poetry, in 
tales, stories and novels, pictured forth on the 




BROOKLINE POLICE STATION AND MM III ROOM, WASHINGTON STKEE1 



interesting of thai of any American city. \\i'\r screen of time all phases of its ancient and modern 

the influence of the Puritans and the Pilgrims life. The dry facts of iis history can be studied 

was concentrated, and from here all the northern in many ancienl chronicles and records, as well as 

in reliable and comprehensive i lorn histories, 

while the stories and novels of Hawthorne bring up 



English colonies received their chief impetus. 
Although settled ten years after Plymouth, Bos- 
ton early became the central colony, the head- before the mental vision with startling distinctness 



quarters from which settlers went forth to found 
new 1 es in the wilderness, and its influence has 



the very texture of t he sombre life of t he Puritans. 
The achievements of the Forefathers, both in the 



always been paramount in New England both in early settle nts and at the Revolution, have been 



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fittingly eulogized in noble orations on num- 
erous occasions by Webster, by Everett, by 
Quincy, by Winthrop, and others, while the 
legends of the Red .Men. the traditions and stories 
of the settlers, and the aspirations of the people, 
have been grandly voiced by the poetry of Long- 
fellow, of Lowell, of Holmes, and of \A hittier. 
The more recent life of the community has f< und 
able delineators in the pages of Howells, James, 
Robert (nam. Edward Bellamy. Louisa M. Alcott, 
Arlo Bates, and a host of others. With such a 
history and such historians, the life of Boston past 
and present, is an open hi ok. accessible not only 
to the studenl but to all. 



first located on the neighboring shores, the name 
Trimountain, subsequently conl racted toTremont. 
The English emigrants who had come to the 
Xew World under the guidance of John Winthrop, 
first pitched on Charleston n as a place for their 
homes; but, it is said b\ some, finding that water 

was scarce there, on the invitation of Blackstone 
they went over to Shawmut, as the Indians and 
Blackstone named the peninsula, and settled 
there, thi' transfer being made on the 7th of Sep- 
tember, 1030, and the name Boston given to the 
settlement, by order of the court held at Charles- 
town on that date This name was chosen in 
11 i limn of Boston, England, the former home of 




BHoOKLIXE PUBLIC LIBRAHY, \\ VSHIXUTOX SII.'KKT, BUILT 1.SG9. 



The first white inhabitant of Boston was an 
English clergyman named William Blackstone 
w ho had been living t here some years In 'fore 1 1 >: II I 
and had a house and garden with fruit trees. Tin 
territory was a pear shaped peninsula, connectei 
with the mainland at the south by a narrow neck 
u mile long, and so low that it was sometimes 
submerged by the tide. The narrowest part wa 
near the junction of the present Dover and Wash- 
ington streets In extent the original peninsula 
was about two miles long by one broad, and con- 
tained 7S3 acre-. It was distinguished by three 
hills, which earni d for it from the settlers who had 



Mime of the colonists, and especially oi Mr. Isaac 
Johnson, whose wife, the lady Arabella, died in 
Salem before their house could be built in Boston, 
and the husband survived her only a few weeks, 
his body being the first interred in King's Chapel 
Burying ( I round. The name ' ' I lost on" is a con- 
traction of Botolph's town. The English Boston, 
in Lincolnshire, was founded in 6.50 L\ St. Bo- 
tolph, a pious Saxon, and contains at presenl 
about fifteen thousand inhabitants. The princi- 
pal building is St. Botolph's church, built in 1309. 
It is a mammoth edifice, and has a tower 300 feet 
high, which can be seen forty miles at Sea. The 



BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 



Rev. John Cotton, the second minister of the 
First Church in Boston, and the most famous of 
the early Boston preachers, was vicar of St. Bo- 
tolph's for t wiiii \ years. The firsl grant of land 
ai MuiUh River appears by the early records to 
have been made to Mr. Cotton, and his farm or 
"planting ground" included a large part of the 
land occupied by the original village of Muddy 
River. 

William Blackstone sold all the peninsula of 
Shawmut to Winthrnp and hi- a--ociale-, except 
six acres where his house stood, for thirty pounds. 
Blackstone's home lot extended from the top of 
Beacon Streel to the Charles River, and included 



Mr. Blackstone, in regard to a "rate of thirty 
pounds," probably the price paid to him for his 
land- At the time of "the great allotments al 
Muddy River," to the inhabitants of Boston. 
January S, Id:!?. "Mr. William Blackstone" re- 
ceived the forty-third allotment, which is de- 
scribed as follows: "Fifteen acres bounded on 
the southeast with Thomas Wardall extending 
itself eighty rods in length to the southwesl and 
northeast and on Robert Titus to the northwest, 
li was probably before this dale thai Blackstone 
removed to Study Hill, a- no further mention of 
him i- found in the records, lie received lhi> 
allotment al Muddv River as of righl because of 




PIERCE HALL. I ERST Ti >\\ \ II \LL. 



the land through which Beacon and Mt. Vernon 
-i reel - now run, and his house is supposed to have 
been in the neighborhood, of the presenl Louisburg 
Square. He did not continue to live in Huston. 
Soon he tired of his neighbors, and removed to 
Study Hill "ii the Blackstone River i named 
after him), within the limit.- of the presenl village 
ef 1. mi-dale. R. I., where he lived all isolated 
life, varied by occasional visits to Boston, or to 
Roger Williams at Providence, until his death in 
1 r, 7 ."> . at the age of eighty years. The first 

reference ill the Boston records to .Muddy I!ive!\ 

November in, li;:!t. also contains a reference to 



his ownership of land in Boston. The greatest of 
the early Boston preacher-. Rev. John Cotton, 
and the firsl settler en the Boston peninsula, 
William Blackstone, were thus among the original 
landholders at Muddy River, and are consequently 
connect ei I historically with the genesis of the town. 
John Winthrop, the leader of the immigrants 
who settled at Boston, was elected by the people 
themselves in "General Court assembled" as the 
governor of the colony. He had also been ap- 
pointed governor by the land company under 
whose auspices the settlements al Salem had been 
begun bv Endicott in 162S. This company had 



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obtained a charter dated March 4, 1628-9, for the 
"Plantation in Massachusetts Bay in New Eng- 
land," and Winthrop was the firsl governor under 
this charter to exercise authority in \<'\\ England. 
The charter was iiol very explicit, but the colo- 
nists gave it a liberal interpretation, assuming 
powers not granted b\ its terms, and practically 
governed themselves under its authority, while 
still stretching its limits. 

Between 1630 and 1640 twenty thousand per- 
sons arrived from England, and during this period 
the colonies on Rhode Island and at Providence, 
and those in Connecticut, were formed by compa- 



Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire and Maine. 
and the Narragansetl Country or King's Province- 
Sir Edmund Andros succeeded Dudley in Decem- 
ber of the same year, and exercised his authority 
in Boston m a very tyrannical manner. When 
the rumor of the English revolution of Kiss and 
the accession of the Prince of < (range to t lie throne 
reached Boston in the spring of 16S9, the people 
rose in rebellion, deposed Andros and put him in 
prison, and then instituted a provisional govern- 
ment under the old charter officers. 

A new charter was received and put in operation 
in 1602. constituting Massachusetts a royal pro- 




HAHVAKI) SQl'AUK 1\ IN(i. r > LOOKING \"|;l!l 



nies of the English, wl ither went willingly or 

were compelled to emigrate because of differences 
in religious opinion. After 1640, immigration 
dwindled, and for years, it is supposed that inure 
people returned to England than came from there 
to Boston. 

The restoration of the Stuarts to the English 
throne in 1660 brought trouble to the settlers at 
Boston. Soon there began a series of differences 
with the home government which resulted in the 
abrogation of the charter in 16S4. The charter 
government expired with the appointment of Jo- 
seph Dudley in 16S6 as Presidenl of the Council for 



\ mce. a ic I the governor was sent from England in- 
stead of being elected by the people as under the 
old charter. At this time Boston had about seven 
thousand inhabitants. This charter continued in 
force down to the tune of the Revolution, and the 
colony was ruled over by eleven royal governors. 
Boston took an especially prominent pari in the 
Revolution. Her sons, with the strong instincts 

for liberty which had I n nurtured in them by 

their education and association, resisted t he aggres- 
sions of the British government. The celebrated 
"Boston Tea Party" occurred Dec. Hi, 177.'!. 
In 177o the war really began, with the skirmishes 



in 



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at Lexington and Concord in April of thai year. 
The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred June 17th, 
followed by the seigc of Boston by the American 
army under < leneral Washington, and the evacua- 
tion of Boston I iv the British troops in March, 1 776. 

Genesis and Development of the Town 
Government. 

1 ur seventy-five years, from the settlement in 
16.30 I" 1705, the territory now comprising the 
present town of Brookline was a pari of the town 
ot Boston. The relation ii bore to Boston was 



is evidence which apparently shows that ii came 
near being annexed to Cambridge. According to 
the colony records for Sept ember, 1634, the < leneral 
Court at a session held in Cambridge, ordered 
"that the ground aboul Muddy River belonging to 
Boston, and used by the inhabitants thereof, 
shall hereafter belong to New Town, the wood and 
timber thereof growing and to be growing, to be 
reserved to the inhabitants of Boston; provided, 
and it is the meaning of the court, thai if Mr. 
Hooker and the congregation now- settled here 
shall remove hence that the ground at Mud- 
dy River shall revert to Boston. The Rev. Mr. 




HARVARD SQUARE IN 1905 LOOKING SOUTH. 

graphically and quaintly described by Wood in Hooker and most of his congregation removed to 

his book "New England's Prospect .' ' in 1675, as Connecticut in the summer of 1636, and according 

follows: to this vote the land reverted to Boston. 

"The inhabitants of Boston for their enlarge- By vote of the governor and council. Dec. 30, 
inent have taken to themselves farm houses in a 1639, five hundred acres at Muddy River were re- 
place called Muddy River, two miles from then- served for "perpetual commonage to the inhabi- 
Iiiwii. where is good ground, large timber, ami tants there and the town of Boston." To such an 



store of marsh land and meadow. In this place 
they keep their swine and other cattle in tin' 
summer, whilst corn is on the ground at Boston; 
and brine; them to town in the winter." 



extent were these common meadow- al Muddy 
River used for the pasturing of cattle that on t his 
account the locality likewise became known by 
the name "Boston Commons" ; and the early re- 



While undoubtedly Muddy River belonged to cords contain regulations as to roadways leading 

Boston from the first settlement of the town, there to the commons, the maintaining of gates, and the 



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prohibition of waste by the cutting of timber. 
\i the -ainc time the land was being allotted to 
inhabitants of Boston, some of whom evidently 
cultivated ii or used it for their rattle whilst 
others, and an increasing number as the years 
went by, I mill boniest eads and settled here. 

The resident inhabitants gradually began to 
wish tn control their own affairs independently "I 
Boston, largelv because of the fact that they 



ty (upon a public hearing of the inhabitants of 
the said Hamlet I shall determine. As also main- 
tain an able reading and writing master there 
from and after that day, and that the inhabitants 
annually meet to choose three men to manage 
their affairs.'' The inhabitants of Muddy River 
accepted tins grant six weeks later. Jan. 10, Kisii- 
7. "at full ting" and elected Andrew Gard- 
ner, John White. Jr., and Th asStedman as the 




MAMAI. TRAINING UK ill SCHOOL FRONT VIEW. 



wen' so isolated and consequently had interests 
distinct from the parent town. < Mi Dec. S. 16S6, 
in response i" t heir petit inn in the town of l>"sti>n, 
the Provincial Council exempted their paying 
rates tn Boston mi condition that thev maintain 



three men In manage their affairs, and Thomas 
Boylston t>> he town clerk. This was the first 
town meeting. 

March 16, 16S9, tin' Boston town meeting re- 
scinded the vote granting separate government tn 



"their own highways and pour and other public Muddy River, in the following words 



charges arising among themselves; and that with- 



V'oted that Muddy River inhabitants are nut 



in niie year next coming thev raise a schoolhouse discharged from Boston t" be a hamlet by them- 

in such place as the two next justices of the coun- selves, but stand related tn Boston as they were 



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before the year 1686." The village in 169S was, 
however, given the privilege of choosing its own 
assessor, who was ''to set with the selectmen" of 
Boston for the making of the rate for Muddy River. 
Thus was recognized the principle that taxation 
and representation must go together. 

The independent spirit in Muddy River con- 
tinued active and the inhabitants continued to 
elect their own village officers, notwithstanding 
the vote of the Boston meeting. In 1700, another 
attempt was made by the inhabitants to secure 
control of their own affairs, as the following extract 
from the records for that vear shows: 



in the town rate, yet for the time to come the select- 
men should rate them in the town tax a- the other 
inhabitants and a- formerly thev used to be 

"And fur their encouragement, it was voted that 
the selectmen should provide a schoolmaster for 
them, tn teach their children to read, write and 
cypher, and order his pay out of the town treasury." 

This action, however, although it practically 
granted a free si hool to the inhabitants of the hamlet, 
evidently did not satisfy their desire for indepen- 
dence. But mi further definite action was taken 
until 1704. when the inhabitant- of Muddy River 
presented two petitions to the General Court, the 




RESIDENCE OF F. E. A.TTEAUX. LAGRANGE AND N'EWTON STREETS. 



"Upon the petition of the inhabitants of Muddy 
River, to be a district or hamlet separate from the 
town for these reasons following, namelv, the re- 
moteness of their situation which renders them 
incapable of enjoying the equal benefit and advan- 
tage with other of the inhabitants of public schools 
for the instruction of their children, relief of their 
poor, and repairing of their highways. 

"Their petition being read and the reasons given 
therein debated, it was voted in the negative, and 
that though they had not for some years been rated 



first of which recited the action which had been 
taken in 16S6, and went on to "further humbly pray 
that being grown to a greater number of good settled 
inhabitants we may be allowed a separate village; 
to have selectmen and all other rights belonging to ,1 
township, whic h may further encourage us as we may 
lie able to settle a minister and other benefits amongst 
us." Hearings were held and delays occurred: 
Boston opposed the separation, strenuously, at these 
hearings and by answers to the petitions. A second 
petition w as sent in as follows: 



BR( X )KLINE, MASSAC 'HUSETTS 



"In liii Excellency tin Governor, Council and 
Assi mbly, in General ( 'onrt convened. 

"The humble petition of the inhabitants of Muddy 
River, showeth, that at a session of this Honorable 
Courl held in Boston on the thirteenth of August, 
1704, the said inhabitants exhibited their humble 
petition praying that the said Muddy River might 
be allowed a separate village or peculiar and be 
invested with such powers and rights as thev mav be 
enabled b\ themselves to manage the general affairs 
oi >aid place. Whiili petition has been trans 
mitted to the selectmen of the town of Boston that 



Benjamin \\ hite, - 
Thomas Stedman, 
John \\ ini hester, 
Samuel Aspinwall, 
I leazer Aspinwall, 
William Sharp, 
Edward 1 levotion, 
[osiah Winchester. |r. 
John Ellis, 
]< ihn \\ ini hester, 
I'll imas \\ lward. 



Joseph Gardner, 
Thomas Stedman, Jr., 
John Ac l.i 1 , 
Joshua Stedman, 
Thomas < lardner, )r., 
Ralph Shepard, 
Abram ( 'hamberlen, 
Peter Boylstone, 
John Ai kers, Jr.. 
\\ illiam Ai kers, 
Benjamin \\ hite, Jr., 
Caleb ( lardner, 




RESIDENCE OF THOMAS li. FITZPATKICK, WINTHROP ROAD. 



they 111,1} consider the same, since which your humble 
petitioners not having been informed of any objei tion 
made by the town of Boston aforesaid, we presume 
thai there is no obstruction to our humble request 
nude in our petition. 

"Wherefore \\e humbh beseech Your Excellency 
that this Honorable Court will be pleased to pro- 
ceed to pass an act for the establishing the said 
place .1 separate village or peculiar with such power- 
as aforesaid, and your petitioners will ever pray, etc. 
Samuel Sewall, Jr., John Winchester. 

'I Is imas < lardner, John 1 levotion, 



( lardner, John Seaver, 

Joseph While. Henry Winchester." 

In response to this petition from the "fathers of 
the hamlet," a granl constituting the community 
an independent village or peculiar was finally passed 
in concurrence November 16, 1705, in the following 
form : 

"Read and ordered that the prayer of this peti- 
tion be granted, and the powers and privileges of 
a township be given to the inhabitants of the land 
commonly known by the name of Muddy River, 
the town to be called Brookline, who are hereb) 



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enjoined to build a meeting house and obtain an 
able orthodox minister according to direction of 

the law, to be settled amongst them within the 
space of three years next coming. 

"Provided thai all common lands belonging to 
the town of Boston lying within the bounds of the 
said Muddy River, not disposed of or allotted out, 
shall remain to the proprietors of said lands." 

The use of the terms "a separate village or pe- 
culiar" in the petition has occasioned much com- 
ment. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop in his oration 
at the dedication of the new town hall. Feb. 22, 
1873, thus explains the matter: 



part of Norfolk county in 1703. Its area, accord- 
ing to a survey taken in 1S44, was 4,695 acres. 
When the town was incorporated in 1 705 probably 
not more than fifty families lived within its limits. 
The signers of the petition numbered only thirty- 
two, but there were only half that number of 
surnames. Undoubtedly these petitioners were 
the most prominent and substantial of the inhabi- 
tants, but that there were many other families 
both the town and other records show. 1'or more 
than a century after its incorporation, however, 
it continued to be a sparsely settled rural com- 
munitv, and not until about 1875 did it begin to 




VIEW t\ RIVERIIALE PARK, NEAR LOXOWOOD BRIDGE. 



"A peculiar" was an old English ecclesiastical 

term which stood for a parish exempt from the 
jurisdiction of the ordinary of the diocese, and 
subject only to the metropolitan. lint there was 
another signification, for which 1 )r. Worcester has 
given ii- the authority of John Milton's glorious 
prose. — 'Mine'- own property." This doubtless 
was the sense in which it was used in the petition. 
B rook line was henceforth to be "its own property, 
and to do its own rating and taxing." 

With sume slight changes in its boundary lines 
on the oast and south. Brookline has, since 1705, 
continued as an independent town. It became a 



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18.50, 2,516 1900, 19,935 

1S55, 3,737 1905, 24,500 

After the civil war a movement began in Bos- 
inn fur die annexation of the surrounding cities 
and towns. The city of Roxhury to the south- 
ward, was annexed in IS67, the town of Dorches- 
ter in 1.S09, 1 1n- city of ( 'harlestown and the towns 
of Brighton and \Vesl Roxhury in 1S73. In 1S70 
an at tempi was made to annex "towns and parts 



.May 16th, of that year, an act was passed provid- 
ing for the annexation of Brookline to Boston, to 
take effecl the following January if a majority of 
the voters, on the first Tuesday in ( k'tober, IS73, 
casl their ballots in favor. The proposition was 
defeated, however, by a vote of 299 in favor to 
7ti7 against. This result was accomplished by 
means of a strenuous agitation conducted by 
of the must influential citizens of the town, 




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of t c i\\ n> lying within six miles of the city hall of 
the oil \ of Boston, on the southerly side of Charles 
liner " These included the towns of Brighton, 
Brookline, and VYosi Roxhury. This attempl was 
not successful as to any of these three towns. In 
InTl' the question of the annexation of Brookline 
was broughl up on the petition of some of her own 
citizens, hut the project was again defeated. The 
real struggle, however, began in 1873. when on 



including T. I'. ('handler. Augustus Lowell, Igna- 
tius Sargent, John L. Gardner, Amos A. Law- 
rence. Robert Ainory. T. K. Francis, James S. 
Amory, John C. Abbot i. Isaac Taylor, A. 1 1 
Chandler, and other-, and the outcome demon- 
strated that they had worked hard anil effectively. 
Although defeated, the advocates of annexa- 
tion persisted, and further attempts were made in 
1ST"). 1 n 7 < > . and 1879, but in no instance in these 



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years did the project get beyond hearings before 
legislative committees. During this period the 

leader of i! pposition to annexation was Alfred 

D. Chandler, Ksq., a prominent lawyer, who had 
taken an active pari in the legal proceedings 
againsl the ad of 1S73. Mr. Chandler appeared 
before the legislative committee in 1879 and de- 
monstrated that the petitioners in favor of annex- 
ation l'epri sented only aboul seven per cent of the 
valuation of the town, and of the 333 petitioners 
only 210 were legal voters. A tesl vote was 
taken in Brookline in the spring of 1SS0, which 



independence "I' Brookline. In 1SSU Wesl Rox- 
linry exceeded Brookline in valuation. At pre- 
sent Brookline exceeds in valuation Brighton and 
West Roxbury combined. 

Since LSSO in i further attempts have been made 
to bring Brookline into the jurisdiction of Boston. 
Although almosl surrounded by the annexed 
territory of Boston, and being in reality pari and 
parcel of the metropolitan district, Brookline has 
during the past quarter century made greater 
gains in population and wealth than any other 
section of the metropolitan territory. In the 




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resulted in 5 1 1 votes against annexation and 'J?'-' 
votes in its favor. The legislative committee re- 
ported againsl annexation, and the report was 
accepted by the legislature. 

Brookline has since LSSO increased in population 
and wealth much more rapidly than West Rox- 
bury and Brighton, which were annexed to Bos- 
ton in 1ST:!, and ii is I he -el tied belief of many of 
the Brookline people and of students of the si'ua- 
tion that this result is mainly due to the political 



opinion of many of her own citizens and ol stu- 
dents of municipal affairs, these results are due to 
her admirable town government, which has made 
possible a policy of public improvement superior 
in administration and consequenl results to that 
practiced in any neighboring localities. These 
points of superiority in Brookline's government are 
three, and may be summarized as follows: 

first. — There is no " Legislative Government." 
the chief officers ai'e five ''selectmen.'' who have 



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while the evident out - 

administration wh 

ration. Thesi - - e not due 1 

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eighboring 
true. A ag to 1 

cent - a poll lax 

only and ' ' a pre: i 

with plutocrai ■ . •■ ! by 

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the poll tax payers and small property owners. 

by men of exceptional 
talent. 

"In Massachusetts you must look elsewhere 

I ] >i kline f >r a a° instance of pluto- 

" in municipal a Iministratii m. 

" Numerically, in Brookline. most of its wealth 

- i hands of men whose incomes vary from, 

we will say, 86(11) to 86,000 a year, while the legal 

Br i ikline who pay only a poll tax were 

last census 1900) in the majority, being 54 

put , of tin i number of \ oters. Hi >re- 

820.000.000 — ■ nearly one-fi mrth —of 

•rally taxed property in Brookline. is owned 




COUNTRY < I.' l:. CLYDE >TREET, BROOKLINE 



"To the usual assu that Brooklim 

hom< c ci m- 

trolled by an i from 

I rative trial-, and 
quesl ■ _ - 

exan fers little 

■ ■ nuld l>e said : Tl i - are far 

sound, because 1 

stimulatii _ 

cidedly mixed, with a ' . 
• _ . _ > wealth beinj 
Taxation 



by non-residents who cannot vote in the ' 

Much property in Brookline is owned by women 

te on appro] iriatii ms : and probably 

if i he ti i\\ ti's larger ta sable 

partially or wholly unpro- 

ducl 

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rigii iid out : I lines bet 

i Boston and Roxbury have been 
Bel een I re and 

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from t In • - I ■ 

I - River to Boston, 

improvement of Brig] ti n A- 

\ ■ \ _ Miss W* Is "the 

the s 
I ; lown wii: t has 

\ illage t-ane.fi 
street. The line cross 
entrance of Pear] street 

3 in Roxburv. Th< 
ed the brook, now the sewer, and tl 
windings and turnings of Miukb I ! 
Bos t on a i I 
When Brook! \ tapers 

eras works 



parkway] - _ ti Street west to Chestnut 

- eet, and back ti \ illag< Lai e. High Street and 

aiea Road. There - 5 to have been - 
misunderstanding as to tl - gonthewest 

R which was still within 

1. 1 >r. I plains the 

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ary of 1 - - Mm Idv River to its • 

and that when this town was incorp 
thn nij i I ludley in tin 

:. the boundary 
"i Muddy River, where it nua 




PLACE OF THE EDWARD DEVOTION HoUSI 



i mid go in and oul of Ro achi 

"A large part of the Punch Bowl village 
was cons Ro: 

tavern s jusl I hin the 1 ! line. The 

boundary between Boston and Brookline was 
fined in 1825. and ois thei I ecentreofthi 
nel of the Charli 3 R cross tl 

into the Back Bay. and on to 1 M . 

River, ' ' where the resp indaries f Bos- 

ton I !n ii ikline and R re said 1 

In February, 1844, that part 
old villaa R : ury. was a 

Brookline. and this ■ antially in- 

cluded the region exten _ ng 1 present 



■ brook which now ] - ■ " 

in than 
_ - ires which cam 

s in possession of thos 
who now lr n Muddy River and Brookline. 

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places was know obi thi 

ng before t hi Brookline. 

I ■ i instances said I 

n the east by Muddy River. In an old 
- given in 1675, twenty- 
ey came to tin 
land - sa I to be in Roxbury. and i 

northwest bv the dividing line 



BROOK LI XE, MA SSA CII U SETTS 



which separates Roxbury from Boston. From 
the land described, this line is known to run up the 
lane which passes by the engine house, in a south- 
westerly direction, and which is now (1S05) the 
boundary be1 ween Roxbury and 1 Srookline. 

In 1S70 the low lying and marsh lands at the end 
of the old mill dam, where the three Mill Dam 
Roads converged, nanielv, Beacon Street, Brook- 
line Avenue ami Brighton Avenue (now Common- 
wealth Avenue), were annexed to Boston in order 
to facilitate the street and park improvements. 
This boundary was readjusted in 1S72, largely for 
sanitary reasons, so that Brookline might improve 
its sewer system and erect a dam and tide gate at 



within a few rods, we pass alternately into Rox- 
bury and Brookline, eight times." The further 
side of Commonwealth Avenue (then Brighton 
Avenue), between thai highway and the Charles 
River was annexed to Boston by an act of the 
legislature which went into effect May S, 1S74, 
largely in order to give to Boston a connection 
with Brighton, which had been annexed to it the 
year before. The southern line of the avenue was 
made the boundary line, May 27, 1S90, in order to 
provide for park improvements, the boundary 
bel ween Boston and Brookline was readjusted and 
defined along the parkway from St. Mary's Street 
to Chestnut Street, 




FIRE HOUSE WASHINGTON STREET, N'EAK BEACON STREET 



the mouth of Muddy River, and the present line 
was then established at the easterly side of St, 
Mary's Street, while the alignment of 1X70 had 
left the line on the westerly side of that street. 
The readjustment of 1872 followed the line of 
Muddy River from Washington Street to the 
mouth of the river, and thereby the crooked lines 
to which Dr. Pierce referred in his discourse at the 
opening of the town hall in 1845, were then 
straightened out. He said: "As the boundary 
between Brookline and Roxbury is now consti- 
tuted, it is somewhat amusing, that, on entering 
the Brookline Avenue, toward the main dam, 



Brookline has probably accomplished more tor 
the money spent by the town than any other town 
or city in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, or 
indeed in the United States, The citizens have 
obtained tic worth of their money to a much 
greater extent than elsewdiere. This result is un- 
doubtedly due to the efficiency of the town govern- 
ment , as compared with other similar governments, 
and with city governments, in the state. All the 
great improvements, including the parkway, 
Beacon Street widening, the construction and 
ii aintenance of the l>est description of roadways 
throughout t he town, the erection of schoolhouses 



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Physical Evolution of the Territory of 
Brookline. 

The neigh b 'rli I of Muddy River undoubtedly 

presented to the view of the first setl lers al Boston 
a beautiful prosped of forest-clad hills behind 
smiling meadows. Two miles westward across 
the salt marshes and waters of the Back Bay the 
present Town of Brookline filled the landscape in 
the background, the conspicuous features being 



route followed the present line of Washington 
Street, through Roxbury Street to Roxbury 
Crossing, and thence by Tremont Street and 
Huntington Avenue to the present parkway 
bridge at Brookline village. 

According to the Massachusetts Colony Records 
at a court helden in Huston. August 6th, 1633, 

"it was agr 1 that there shall be a sufficient 

cart bridge made in some convenient place over 
Muddy River." At a general Court held at Cam- 




ST. PAUL'S i III "IK II \XI) ASPINtt \l.l. AVEXL'K. 



Babcock's and Corey's hills on the lefl and Aspin- 
wall and Fisher's hills slightly to the southward. 
The Charles River bounded the territory on the 
northeast, on the easl the w hole width of the Back 
Bay intervened between it and the peninsula of 
Boston, while the Muddy River with it- marshes 
meandered along the southeast frontier. To reach 
it from Boston a long detour of mure than four 
n iles, over the neck, around the Back Bay, and 
the head of the river, was necessary; and the 



bridge, March 1. 1634-5, il was "ordered, thai Mr. 
Rich, Dinner and John Johnson shall build a 
sufficient carl bridge over Muddy River before the 
next Genera] Court." and that Boston. Roxbury, 
Dorchester, Watertown and Cambridge shall 
equally contribute to its cost. This is supposed 

tn have 1 ti built on the site of the present bridge. 

According to the Boston records, on < let. 26, 1640, 
William Colborn, Jacob Eliotl and Peter Oliver 
were detailed to see tci the building "f a bridge al 



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Muddy liner. Undoubtedly the reason why the 
cost of the first bridge was assessed on all the 
surrounding towns, was because of the fact that it 
formed the connecting link or converging point for 
all the early roads connecting those towns. 

Evidently between 1635 and 1640 the village 
at Muddy River had its origin, as the principal 
allotment of land was made during this period ol 
five years. Who settled here and \\ ho did nol . of 
:l i Boston men \\1m> had hind allotted to them at 
this time, it is impossible to say definitely, but 
probably only a few" erected houses and transferred 
their dwelling places from Boston here. It is cer- 
tain that only a very small and scattered village 
grew up; but it probably was established im- 



One thing which contributed to the growth of 
the village was l he tact that it was situated at a. 
central point -at the natural parting of the ways 
to the adjoining towns, as is evidenced by the 
circumstances connected with the early building 
of the bridge. Two oi' the men who were appoint- 
ed to -,r thai a bridge was built. William Colborn 
and Jacob Eliott, and who were evidently "first- 
comers," were on March 30, 1640, "appointed to 
lav out the highways at .Muddy River towards 
Cambridge." This is the first record in reference 
to the laying oul of a road, March 27, L654. "Mr. 
William Davis, and Mr. Peter I Uiver, John White 
and Peter Aspinwall" were " chosen to join with 
Cambridge to lay out a highway through Muddy 




EDWARD DEVOTION HOUSE HOMESTEAD -BUILT 16S0, 



mediately after the principal allotment was made 
in 1637, and grew very slowh after that time. It 
was in fact, a community settlement, as were all 
the English .settlements at that lime- by a com- 
pany of people who had been previously associated 
and who considered themselves bound to each 
other much closer in religious and social fellow- 
ship than can be conceived today. In 1679 the 
number of men living in Muddy River who took 
the oath of allegiance, was only 64, representing 
but little over forty families. In 1705, when the 
place became an independent town "a separate 
village or peculiar," — it i- -aid there were only 
fifty families in its limits. 



River to Cambridge." William Colborn and 
Jacob Eliott, with Mr. William Paddy and Peter 
Oliver, were directed to lav out a highway to 
Watertown mill, April 30, 1657. On the '-'1st of 
May of that year, it is recorded, this road, proba- 
bly the present Washington Street, was laid out 
by this committee aided by committees from 
Watertown and Cambridge. ' 'four rods in breadth 
and directed by mark i rees. 

All these mads had undoubtedly existed as 
paths through the primeval forests, originally de- 
veloped and used by the Indians, and were utilized 
by the white settlers. These trails followed tin 
hue- of least resistance, avoiding the swamp-. 



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going around the water courses, fording the 
streams at shallow places, flanking the hills, and 
following the easiesl routes through valleys. 
Such were undoubtedly the characteristics of the 
first highways laid out by the village fathers at 
Muddy River. Like their contemporaries else- 
where, they only enlarged or widened the old 
trails, preserving their lines and direction. 

Probably it is not possible to definitely decide 
which of the well-known highways of the present 
day the records already quoted refer to. Traffic 
westward passed over the old Sherburne road, 
now the presenl Walnut and Heath streets, which 
ran along the southern slope of Fisher's Hill. The 
general impression is that this is the oldest road. 
which is very likely, as probably it was the leading 
trail westward from very early times. Reservoir 
Lane, now only a cart path, which lead- out of the 
old Sherl mrne road a mile or more from the village 
is said to have been the trail which the Indian 
Apostle Eliol followed on his journeys from Bos- 
ton to his Indian freinds and congregation at their 
village of Nonantum, now- Xewton. < In old maps 
this read is named Eliot's trail, The Watertown 
Road was in the valley between Aspinwall and 
Usher's Hills, and is now- the present Washington 
Street; while the Cambridge Road, the presenl 
Harvard Street, probably, passed along the north- 
ern base of Aspinwall Hill and between it and 
Babcock 1 1 ill These three main arteries of tra\ el 
-till constitute the main travelled ways in and 
through the town. The locality from which the) 
radiated became by force of circumstances the 
centre of population.and here the village of Muddy 
River grew up. Xo path seems to have existed 
and no road was laid out in the valley between 
Fisher's and Aspinwall Hills, but this depression, 



through which flowed the village brook, afforded 
an excellent road-bed for the railroad when it was 
built m 1S4S. 

Inevitably at this "cross roads." a tavern was 
built to accomodate the travellers passing to and 
from Boston and the various towns and settle- 
ments near and remote. This house of entertain- 
ment was built before 1740. and was known as the 
Punch Bowl Tavern, from the fact that on its 
sign, suspended from a high red post, was depicted 
a punch "bowl and ladle overhung by a lemon 
tree, resplendenl with fruit, some of which lay 
around the bowl as if fallen from the tree." I he 
building stood on the eastern corner of Pearl and 
Washington Streets, and was of a yellowish color, 
two stories in height, the upper story projecting. 
A seat ran along under the projecting story, where 
travellers or village worthies foregathered. Fot 
a century this tavern was the nucleus of the life of 
the immediate community. Its porch and com- 
mon r ns were the centre of a social lite tor the 

villagers w here they could hear not only the gossip 

of the neighborh 1 hut the "travellers' tale-" 

which afforded them the most direct mean- of 
communication with the outside world. It like- 
w i-e was a famous place for convivial reunions and 
social parties from Boston and elsewhere. I he 
old inn. like all it- contemporaries, was in fact a 
social clearing house of intelligence, news and 
opinions for the people in the vicinity, and conse- 
quently became the be-t known institution ill the 

community, so that the place before the revolu- 
tion and after was better known elsewhere in \ew 
England as the "Punch Bowl Village," than by 
any other name. The tavern was a very busy and 
livelv place in the heyday of its prosperity, during 
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lution and the building of the railroads; but with 
the coming of the latter its usefulness departed, 
and the old house was torn down. The original 
part of the tavern was buill by .lames Goddard 
as a private dwelling, and about 1710 came into 
the possession of John Ellis, who enlarged it and 
converted it into a tavern, li was subsequently 
conducted by William Whitney. Eleazer Baker, 
Eliphalet Spurr, William Panghton in 1S01, 
franklin Gerry in 1S20, bonis Boutell in 1826, 
William Jenerson in 1sl>7. 

The Punch Bow] Tavern was pulled down about 
1833 by .Mr. Isaac Thayer, and the substantia] old 
timbers of which it was constructed were used to 



Whereas. The recent painful and distressing 
occurrence in the death of Robert Noyes from 
Ardent Spirits, and by the verdict of the jury his 
death was caused "by liquor obtained at the 
Punch Howl anil elsewhere,'' and whereas the 
location of the Punch Bowl Tavern renders it 
identified in the weal orwoeof the town of Brook- 
Inn', and by the indiscriminate sale of Ardent 
Spirits is more clearly identified as injurious to the 
town, producing consequences that call loudly on 

t lie friends of g I order and sobriety. Therefore 

resolved, That this meeting view the untimely 
death of Robert Xoyes from intoxication with pain 
and sorrow, and that as good citizens we will do all 




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build tenement houses in the neighborhood. The 
old Wynian house, which stood on Washington 
Street near the Punch Bowl, was originally the 
residence of Dr. George Griggs, was converted in- 
to a tavern after the destruction of the original 
inn, and retained the old name, as t he original sign 
had been acquired and erected in front of this 
second Punch Bowl Tavern. Miss Woods says: 
"it hail little except local patronage, and that of 
of the lowest sort, and was finally given up." 
The following action taken at the town meeting, 
March 25, 1844, substantiates this statement: 

VOTE ON PUNCH BOWL. 
Preamble and Resolution offered by S. A. Walker. 



in our power to prevent a like disastrous occur- 
rence. 

Voted, That a committee of twenty of the 
inhabitants of the town of Brookline be appointed 
who shall repair in a body to the Punch Bowl 
Tavern, and under the sanction and authority oi 
the town remonstrate with Mr. .1. Sprague or 
whoever may have charge of the Punch Bowl, 
against intoxicating drinks hereafter being sold by 
him orthem. the results of which are disastrous to 
the town and community and especially to the 
youth, and should a friendly remonstrance prove 
unavailing, then said committee are hereby fully 
authorized and instructed to abait said nuisance 



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and maintain the honor of the town and vindicate 
the violated laws of the i imonwealth. 

Voted, Thai the Town Clerk furnish the pro- 
prietor and Mr. J. Sprague, the keeper of the 
Punch Bowl, or whoever may occupy the same 
(asi the proprietors with a copy of the foregoing 
Preamble, Resolution and Vote. 

The committee appointed to visit the Punch 
Bowl Tavern on that occasion were the following: 
Samuel A. Walker, Caleb Craft, Jr., 

A H Clappi Joshua W. Blanchard, 

Daniel Sanderson, William Hardy. 

David Coolidge, Charles Stearns, Jr., 

Thomas GrUgs, A. W. Goddard, 



were covered with a primeval forest and traversed 
by a few Indian trails which had been gradually 
developed into cart roads. The few Ik. uses .if the 
settlers, constituting the village, were in the near 
neighborhood of the cross mads, chiefly along the 
hue of the old Sherburne road, while the cattle of 
the settler.- and of the inhabitants of Boston who 
had allotments here, were pastured on the 
meadows belonging to their owners, or on the five 
hundred acre common field. A school had been 
secured in 16S6. Before the incorporation, and 
afterward, the inhabitants of Muddy River, wor- 
shiped with the First Church m Roxbury, and did 
11. .t have a church building of their own until 1.11. 




( ttis Withington, 
Muses Junes, 
Samuel Goddard, 
Hugh M. Sanborn, 

James Bartlett . 



\ II. LACK SCJl' \l:K. 1905 LOOKING N'OK I II 

am l t he church society was not organized until 



Timothy Corey, 

.lame- I. ceil-. 

Harrison Fay. 
Samuel Craft. 
Thomas Keiida 



At the time of the organization of the village 
into an independent town or "Peculiar," in 170.'). 
the physical characteristics of the locality were as 
appears by the records, substantially as follows: 
Natural marshes and meadows on the Charles 
River, the Back Bay. and Muddy River, suitable 
for pasturage; hills of a gentle slope, which were 
separated from the rivers and bay by these mea- 
dows, while their slopes and the valley- between 



1717. 

When the settlers from Boston came to Muddy 
River the mosl noticeable artificial -tincture 
within the limit- of the territory was the Indian 
fort, which stood on a knoll in the centre oi "the 
great swamp, "as the low lands in Longwood were 
called bv the early settlers, on what is now the 
eastern 'corner of Powell and Beacon Street-. 
Tin- "old fort", which remained an object of his- 
toric i n t e res1 in a tolerable state of preservation 
, mll | L844-45, was built of pah-ad.-, enclosing 
abou1 an eighth of an acre ,.f ground in square 
form and surrounded by a ditch about three feel 



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BROC KLINE, U. 1 SS. Will SETTS 



in depth, and a parapel three feet in height, with 
an opening or gateway on each side, one of which 
was toward the swamp," The first mention of 
Muddy River is in connection with this fort, by 
Governor Winthrop in his journal, under date of 
1632, as follows: 

' ' Notice being given of ten sagamores and many 
Indians being assembled at Muddy River, the 
governor sent Captain Qnderhill with twenty 



of Walnut and Chestnut streets, opposite the old 
cemetery, and is thus described by Miss Woods in 
her Historical Sketches of I'rookline : 

' ' It was a log house, with one door but no win- 
dows in the lower story. The upper story pro- 
jected overt Ik dower three or four feet on all sides. 
This was fort and storehouse for the whole settle- 
ineiit, and into it were huddled the women and 
children in all cases of alarm from the Indians. In 




BAPTIST CHURCH, 
CORNER OF HARVARD AND PIERCE STREETS 



musketeers to make discoveries, but at Roxbury 
the\ heard that they were broken up.'' 

It is to be regretted that this old fort could not 
have been preserved, as no other memorial of the 
red men in existence would have been so typical 
of their life anil manners, nor would have made such 
an appeal to the intelligence and sentiments of the 
people of today. 

A garrison house for the protection of the settle- 
ment, was early erected near the southeast corner 



the projecting Hour of the upper story were loop 

holes, from which the boards could be taken up. 
and through which the women could pour down 
boiling water upon the savages in case they came 
close to the building to set it on fire. Whether 
the Brookline garrison house was ever thus at- 
tacked and defended, we have unfortunately no 
historical records in existence to tell us. " 

Willi animals do not appear to have troubled 
the settlers here to any great extent, the only IV- 



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BROOK LINE, MA SS. ICIIL T SE 1 ' 1 \S 



cord of their presence being thai Philip Curtis was 
paid a premium of twenty shillings for killing a 
wolf in November, l(i- r >7. 

Several brooks flowed through the eastern part 
nf the territory and exercised an important effect 
on its development. Themost important of these 
was Muddy River, or brook, which gave its 
name to the original village, and has always had 
an important influence on the locality. Village 
Brook was a beautiful stream of clear water, with 
considerable volume, flowing down the valley be- 
tween Aspinwall and Fisher's Hills: it emptied 
into .Muddy River a short distance north of the 
Bridge, and was the largest supply of fresh water 



now remains. Smelts Brook starts at the foot oi 
Corey Hill near Winchester Street, and follows a 
natural valley t<> the Charles River, taking the 
general direction of the Naples Road. The lower 
portion of this brook formed the original boundary 
between Boston ami Cambridge, and between 
Brookline and Cambridge. It also formed the 
western boundary of Judge Samuel Sewall's farm, 
which according to his diary was allotted to him in 
June, 1687, and probably from the fact of its loca- 
tion on the town's boundary the judge nai I his 

estate ' ' Brooklin. 

The name of the town when incorporated eight 
years later, is supposed to have been taken in 




BROOKLINE BATH HOUSE 



which that tidal stream received. At present in 
most of its extent it is now covered over, as it was 
degraded in its lower portion to be a "common 
sewer," many years ago; still it can be seen in 
snme approach to its original form along the rail- 
mad tracks in the highland district, where its 
clear waters and pebbly but turns still afford pleas- 
ure to the passing traveller on the highways or on 
the trains, and adds to the beauty of the landscape as 
it flows along or passes under the railroad and high- 
way bridges. Tannery Brook was a small stream 
flowing between Corey and Aspinwall Hills, and 
emptyinginto MuddyRiver; but of it little trace 



honor of the judge, a- he was at that time chief 
justice of the colony, while his sun, also named 
Samuel, was town clerk of Boston, a resident and 
land holder at Muddy Kivcr.and sun-in law to the 
governor, Joseph Dudley. The references to this 
farm in the judge's diary are: Under date of 
Monday, June 20, 1687— "Went to Muddy River 
with Mr. Gore and Mr. Eliot to take a pint of 
Brooklin"; and Wednesday, June. 22— "Went 
to Muddy River. Mr. Gore finishes comparing the 
land with his plain table; [doit chiefly that I may 
know my own, it lies in so many nooks and 
corners." Judge Sewall's farm extended to the 



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B1H H )KLINE, MASSACH I SETTS 

Charles River and the Back Bay, and the land lie- only on Brookline bu1 on Boston and all its en- 

tween the river and bay was known as Sewall's virons, was the building of the Mill Dam from the 

Point. Another explanation of the origin of the end of Beacon Street, at Charles Street, on the 

name Brookline is the fad thai while Smelt's Boston Peninsula, across the shallow waters of the 

Brook was the boundary on the northeast corner, Hack Bay, to Sewall's Point in Brookline. The 

Village Brook and Muddy River formed the boun- project was conceived in 1M I, and in thai year a 

dary on the southeast, so thai in fad the most ob- charter was granted by the General Court to the 

vious and best known boundaries were thus Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, empower- 

Brook lines on both sides of the town. Dr. Pierce ing it to construct not only the mam dam but a 

seemed to favor this opinion. cross dam from ( iravelly Point in Roxbury to the 

Muddy River afforded some facilities for a main dam. and a road from the western end al 

limited amount of traffic bj water with Boston Sewall's Point to the Punch Bowl Tavern in 

and nearby ports on the coast. March 6, 1769, at Brookline. The corporation was empowered to 

the town meeting, "Mr. Xehemiah Davis, Capt. make roadways of these dams, and to levy lolls 

White, Deacon Ebenezer Davis, chosen a com- for their use, as well as for the use of the new road 

mittee to see if there is any landing place belong- from the tavern: and was also authorized to 

ing to said town." Sailing \ essels came up as far utilize the power created by the dams for opera I - 

as the present Longwood Avenue bridge to the ing mills, or to let the power for that purpose. Alter 

oyster beds and later to the brick and lumber several years' work this "real engineering under- 

yards, bul the building of the mill dam across the taking was completed in L821. About six hum 

Back Bay m 1821 destroyed this traffic. died acres of tidal Hats over which the tide flowed 

In 1806-07 the Worcester turnpike, a loll road, from seven to ten feet deep, were enclosed by the 
was built over Bradley Hill to the reservoir. Il main dam. A loll of six and a quarter cents was 
was intended to take the place of the old Sher- charged on this road, which had the effect of pre- 
burne road -Walnut and Neath Streets— and, venting the small population of Brookline village 
following tin' custom of the time, when road at that time from using it freely. In lime, how- 
building by private corporate ms was the mean- In ever, the Mill Dam Road, or Beacon Street, as it 
which transportation facilities were secured, it wa- finally called, became a much patronized 
was Imilt in a straight line over hill and dale. ( >n thoroughfare and gradually made the remote and 
this accounl it never was popular with earners. isolated town of Brookline accessible for suburban 

who preferred the easier grades of the old huh- residences. At one ti the Mill Dam Road was 

way. Thelirsi entry in the records m regard to a favorite place tor Boston people to speed their 

this road is under date of Now ;;, 1806, when horses. 

"Col. Isaac S. Gardner, Mr. Ebenezer Heath and In this connection the following quoted from 

Mr. Jonathan Ham rid were chosen a committee the appendix to Dr. Pierce's discourse al the 

to agree with the agents for building Worcester dedication of the town hall. Oct. II. 1845, is of 

turnpike relative to the road from Mr. Goddard's interest: 

land lo Mr. Heath's corner, and to do whal in " Distances according to Francis Jackson, land 

their judgment may be most for the benefit of the ( !ommissi t, Boston, as published in the Boston 

town respecting the same. " At the town meet- Centinel, December 26, 1832. 

ing in March, 1827, a committee was appointed to " From parsonage of First Church of Brookline to 

to see that the turnpike corporation lived up to its the Old State House, Boston 

contract and kept the road in the town limits in Miles. Qu. IMs. 

good repair. After si : negotiations in 1832, Over the Neck •"> <> '-<T 

this road became in 1833 a county highway, the • Iver the Western Avenue 

turnpike corporation agreeing to pay $500 to the (Mill Dam) 4 I 77 

town of Brookline for the repairs then necessary. Over the Tremonl Streel 4 2 56 

as a condition to induce the town to assume the "The road from Boston to Roxbury over Tre- 

f ut lire care of the highway. mont Street was opened September 10, 1832. " 

The topographical change thai has had an enor- The filling in and reclaiming of the area enclosed 

mous and far-reaching beneficial influence, not by the Mill Dam is an enterprise which in its vari- 

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i m.- phases, including the development of Boston's 
magnifieenl park sj'stem, has been going on ever 
since the dam was first built, and the end is not 
yet; but the result lias been, so far, to build up 
here the finest part of modern Boston, on the tidal 
flats and salt marshes which formerly intervened 

bet weell I he I lid eit V and I !n ii ikline. 

A consequence which might have been foreseen 
but one which it took three decades t' i bring about, 
was the construction bv the town of Brookline of a 



ington Street to the Mill Dam, was laid out. The 
road was completed in IN52 at a cost of between 
thirteen and fourteen thousand dollars, t lie lower 
part of it being built through the ancient salt marsh. 
In 18S6-7 this street was converted into a parkwaj . 
Hid to lso feet in width, at an entire cost of $615,- 
000, of which the town of Brookline paid $465,000. 
bur two miles this beautiful boulevard extends 
through the town, from the end of the old Mill 
Dam, In the ( 'In- 1 m it Hill Reservoir of the Boston 




A RESIDENCE ON WALNUT STREET 



continuation of Beacon Street or the Mill Dam 
road. Mr. George (Jriggs seems to have been the 
moving spirit in advocating this new highway. 
Although he brought up the question repeatedly, 
his conservative fellow townsmen defeated the 
project in 1S49 and 1850, but on July '_'•"> of the 
latter year a vote was passed appropriating money 
for building the section of the road from Washing- 
ton Street to the Brighton line, and on June fol- 
lowing the other portion of the road, from Wash- 



Water Works, and consists of two macadamized 
roadways, between which is a grass-grown park- 
way through which the electric ears now run. It 
forms a continuation of Beacon Street in Boston, 
and makes at present one of the great avenues ni 
the world. As an investment the construction 
of this road paid the town of Brookline in the 
enormously increased valuation of the property 
ahing its mute, brought about by the erection of 
elegant and expensive residences an increase of 



BROOK LI XE. MA SSA CH U SETTS 









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The Park System. 



BR( H )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

nearly five millions in the six years after its com- the channel of Muddy River." In order to 

pletion. remedy, at least partly, this state of affairs, au- 

Iii 1S3-1 the Boston and Worcester (now the thority was obtained from the legislature to build 

Boston >V Albany, Xew Vork Central, Lessee) a dam with a tide-gate across Muddy River, al 

railroad, was built as far as Newton, and passed its intersection with Brookline avenue in Boston 

through the eastern end of Brookline. April 8, This dam was completed in 1873, and maintained 

1848, the Brookline Branch Railroad was opened water in the river at a uniform height, thereby 

for travel. It diverged from the main line near concealing the foul and muddy flats, and render- 

the end of the Mill Dam road, and passing along ing the prospect much more pleasing. The 

the western bank of Muddy River was then car- change which occurred here after the laying out of 

ried through the deep valley between Aspinwall the parkway was well described by Charles Idiot, 

and Fisher's Hills, following the course of Village the land-rape architect : 
Brook. Although the road was bitterly opposed, 
it proved of greal benefit to the community. 

The topographical changes which were brought 
alioiit by the building of the railroad-, were of "Only a few years ago the tide from the sea 
great moment. In ls.il both the Boston & Wor- ebbed and flowed in a narrow channel which 
cester and the Boston & Providence railroads were wound through broad and narrow salt marshes 
projected, and when built their tracks were laid from tin' Back Bay to Brookline. At low water 
across the tide-flowed lands enclosed by the Mill each day the muddy bed of this tidal creek was ex- 
Dam. As a result the usefulness of the basin for posed to the air and to view, while at extreme 
furnishing power was affected, while the claims of high water the marshes were flooded so that the 
riparian owners to fill in the fiats opposite their salt tide lapped the bases of the bluffs on either 
land also introduced questions difficult of solution. hand. Before the Brookline branch of the Boston 
Ultimately on sanitary grounds, because the and Albany Railroad was built along the fool of 
water area had become an ''open cesspool, re- the western bluff, the sinuous creek, the sunny 
ceiving the sewage of a large community.'' and marshes, and the framing woods, composed a pret- 
after discussions and negotiations extending over ty picture of a type characteristic of the Massachu- 
inany years, the entire area was filled in by the setts seacoast . | J ,ut with the incoming of the 
state, with the exception of narrow waterways, a railroad and the accompanying great increase in 
large portion converted into a park, while the re- the adjacent population, an ominous change 
maindcr was built upon and now constitutes the took place. The bluffs became the backyards of 

finest part of the city of Boston. This is the fa- suburban houses, the edges of the marshes were 

mous Back Bay District, and the parkway in Bos- made places for dumping rubbish, the marshes 

ton is known as the Back Bay Fens, and in Brook- themselves began to be occupied by shabby 

line a- Riverdale Park. These parks have been buildings, which rented cheaply because they were 

developed into places of surpassing beauty, and set too low. The situation, indeed, seemed hope- 

the unsightly, foul-smelling, mud-bordered water- less. The valley of Muddy River was ob\ iouslj 

ways have become most attractive localities. destined to become one of those all ton numerous 

While the ultimate result of all these changes in plague spots of the neighborhood of Boston, which 

the topography of the Back Bay region, has been are not only ugly and dangerous in themselves, 

very beneficial to Brookline, there was a time but also extremely damaging to all surrounding 

when for years t he effect was to make a portion of life and property." 

the town little better than a slum, and convert the This result was not to be. however, lor a- Mr. 

valley of Muddy River into a foul and unwhole- Eliot goes on to sa\ : 

some region. A report on its condition made to "The city of Boston and the town of Brookline 

the town meeting, March 26, 1872, said: "The have thwarted 'destiny' through the coopcra- 

difficulty arises mainly from the setting back, by tive action of their park < imissions. The pri- 

the tides, of water loaded with impurities of the vate owners of the backyards, bluffs and mat 

Back Bay, which upon the receding of the tide have been bought out. The Riverway has been 

are left upon the margin and -hallow bottom of built, affording not only an agreeable plea ure 

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BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

drive, but also a desirable frontage for private and debt limit for the purchase and improvement of 
apartment houses. By means of a dam the tide land for park purposes. The work then went on 
has been completely shut out, and prevented from according to the original plans, and the parkway 
alternately drowning and exposing the low lands. in Brookline was substantially completed in 1S95, 
By means of a gate at Brookline Avenue, the fresh and then presented the appearance depicted by 
water, which now fills the channel, is kept perma- Mr. Eliot. At present | 1905), the vegetation has 
nentlvat about the level of the high water in Bos- grown up, and the whole outcome of the design 
ton Bay. By means of suitable pathways and as conceived by Mr. Olmstead justifies his fore- 
bridges the completely changed but pleasing seen- sight, presenting as it does a satisfying and har- 
ery of the transformed valley has been made acces- monious landscape effect. The total cost of 
sible and enjoyable." Riverdale Park, including maintenance, but de- 
Within the limits of Brookline this parkway, ducting the amount received for betterments, has 
formed of the valley of the Muddy liner, extends been $457,069.97. 
for about two miles along the sout heastern border 

of the town, from the Back Bay Fens to Jamaica Brookline Water System. 

Pond, and is about a thousand feet in width. 

Frederick Law Olmstead, the celebrated landscape By an act of the General Court passed May (i, 

architect, originated the designs for the park 1872, Brookline was authorized to take a water 

and parkways, and supervised the entire work. supply from the Charles River, not in excess of 

At first a proposal had been made to connect the 1,500,000 gallons daily. This act was accepted 

Back Bay Fens with Jamaica Pond by a parkway by the town. May 7, IS72, and Feb. 27, L873. 

over Barker's Hill in Roxbury, but the Brookline On March 19, 1873, it was voted to take 750,000 

people suggested that the more natural course was gallons .lady, but April 27, 1874, a vote was 

the valley of the Muddy River. A difficulty was passed to increase the amount to 1,500,000, the 

at once apparent, namely, that the territory to be ''mil of the act, » let. 28, 1873, a vote was passed 

treated was partly in Boston and partly in Brook- appropriating $400,000 for the construction of the 

line, but this was provided for by the election by water work.-, the streets in which the pipe- to be 

Brookline of three park commissi -r-. Theodore laid were specified, and an ordinance defining the 

Lyman. Charles S. Sargent, and Francis W. Law- powers of the water commissioners was adopted, 
rence, who could cooperate with the Boston Park April 26, 1875, $75,000 was appropriated to corn- 
Commissioners. At the adjourned annual town plete the works which were completed within 

meeting, March 15, 1882, the selectmen were au- three years fr the time construction began, and 

thorized to issue bond- to the amount of $40,000 the final report of the water commissioners was 

"to be expended by them from time to time in accepted April 17. 1876. Complaints were fre- 

procuring by purchase or otherwise the land lying quent in the early days of the water system as to 

within the limits of the town required to carry out certain impurities in the water. Afters e iu- 

Mr. Olmstead's plan." Boston appropriated vestigations and experiments a unique plan was 

$200,000 for its proportion of the work, while some adopted, which has been thus outlined by Mr. 

land owners in Brookline presented land to the Chandler in hi- pamphlet entitled "Brookline; A 

town and others sold land led, for nominal Study in Town Government " : 

sums, the whole amounting to about 844,000 "The water now distributed through Brookline 
square feet. For a time Boston was hampered by for household uses has the advantage of being 
lack of funds growing out of her inability to bor- taken from subterranean sources of remarkable 
row as the debt limit had been reached. Under purity, at a temperature of about fifty degrees, 
these circumstances, Bo-ton wished to de- and of never being exposed to the sun or light un- 
lay the work, but Brookline insisted thai a- the til drawn at the faucet for use. It has been found 

enterprise had been undertaken jointly neither that for reasons not well underst 1. alga? would 

party could withdraw without the consent of the form in water, however pure, thus taken from the 

other. In the end, in deference to this very reas- ground, if the water was left in storage reservoirs 

onable contention, the legislature passed an an exposed to the light. The algse were harmless but 

allowing Boston to borrow $600,000 beyond the unpleasant to note. Brookline first introduced in- 

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BR( )i )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 



to its high service system a covered receiving tank 
upon a hill, with the result that the algse did 
not form there. A covered reservoir of larger 
dimensions was I hen I mi It fur general use, and the 
effect upon the water has been all thai was prom- 
ised, for now every household can have water as 
pure and almosl as cool as when taken from the 
underground gravel conduits six miles away on 
the shores of the Charles River, these conduits in- 
tercepting the percolating waters on their way to 
i lie river, and the sii|>|>lv being ample. The value 



l>\ tin' high service pumping engines mi Newton 
Si reel near ( Irove St reel . 

[•'isher Hill Reservoir of the Boston Water 

Work- is als fisher's Hill, a short distance 

from the covered reservoir; while mi the southern 
side of the hill on Boylston Street, is the old Brook- 
line Reservoir formerly the property "I the Boston 
Water Works, but recently purchased by the 
town of Brookline. 

The Brookline water is nut actually taken di- 
rect l\ from the Charles River, but from a In mi one 




RESIDENCE < >l Mi; JOSEPH WALKER, I'll. AND ROAD. 



of this pure, cool water to the development oi 
Brookline can hardly be over-estimated. It is 
often the reason why householders have selected 
Brookline for a residence. Its importance is such 
that the town has no hesitancy in appropriating 
whatever sum of money is reasonably needed for 
tin' maintenance of such a necessary luxury." 

(•n the top of fisher's Hill two covered reser- 
voirs are situated; while about a mile westward, 
mi the still higher elevation of Single Tree Hill, is 
a high service tank into which the water is pumped 



hundred and sevent} driven wells situated mi the 
banks of the upper reach of that stream. They 
are supposed tn tap the springs which supply the 
river, so in this sense the water comes from the 
Charles. From the wells the water is pumped 

direct t<> the reservoir mi fisher's Hill, withoul 
having been exposed t" the light. By an act 
passed March 13, lsss. Brookline was authorized 
Intake an additional 1,500,000 gallons daily from 
the Charles River presumably in the same indi- 
rect manner. 



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BR( H )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 



Sanitary System. centre of population. A store was opened here on 

one of the corners in 1S57 by William D. Coolidge 
ami ni her members of his family, and was conducted 
for many years by them under the firm name of 
Coolidge Brothers. From this fact the locality 
became known as "Coolidge Corners," which 
name it has since retained. ' 'The old store, with 



Brookline had the usual experience with the 

question of how to dispose of sewage. The brooks 

and the river were at first utilized, with ultimately 

very unsatisfactory and disagreeable results. By 

vote of the town meeting, Sept. L3, 1867, Village 

Brook was utilized as a common sewer. That it 

,, 11 • i i its town pump in front . and its hav scales, was a 

well served this purpose is evident from the fact ... 



familiar landmark, and was torn down only a few 
years ago to make room for S. S. Pierce's mam- 



thai it was the natural channel for the surface 

water, and was amply sufficient for the then limited 

, , , ., i- moth building. The store was a great place to 

population of the town in view of existing sam- ' 



tary condition-, conveniences and habits. A 
system of sewers was, however, projected in 1869, 
and $62,500 was appropriated to build them. 
I he\ all finally emptied into Muddy River, through 
the Milage Brook. As Muddy River and the 
Back Bay were at thai time more or less obstructed 

liv various highways and railroads, the effect 

... , the present White and Kerrigan Places and all the 

tended in become more and more m a nuisance. 

,,, ,.,_,. . , land between bordering on Bovlston Street. Miss 

Jan. IV), 18/b, a i lllltlee was appointed to 

. , ., ,. , . ,, . YA Is thus described this locality al that period: 

"consider the suliiect ot treeing the natural ,..,." 

.. , .. ,, ,, " I he lieautiliil brook which is now walled up 

water courses ot the town from all sewage matter. ,.,,., 

alongside the railroad, then wound through grass 



gather the neighbors, who were mostly farmers 
on a rainy day or in winter time, and many a 

g I story has been told a roii i id 1 1 Id stove 

Before the building of the Brookline branch 
railroad in 1M7. the land immediately west of 
Washington Street through which the railroad 
now runs was a beautiful meadow, and included 



The Legislature in 1875 passed an act granting 
the town permission to borrow $300,000 to con- 
struct sewer. 



and wild flowers, and coming oul from the 
meadow through two arched openings in a low 



... ,, ... ,, , .-,. i -ionewall.il spread itself alone beside the street 

1' mall v, on rebruarvll, IS/!), a comprehensive 

, ,. i ■ ,i i ii for a space at least twenty feet wide and more than 

plan tor a system ol sewerage, designed by J. Her- 

liert Shedd. civil engineer, and which provided for 
a main intercepting sewer emptying into the 
Charles River, was adopted. This has proved to 
he a very complete and satisfactory system, and 
was designed to take in "all the sewers hereto- 
fore built and hereafter to lie built in said town'' 
Brookline'.- -ewer- were connected in 1891 with 

the Metropolitan system of sewers, a comprehen- 

. . ..' .. ., . . sparkling water invited the great droves of cattle 

si ve scheme providing tor Hos ton and its environs. 



twice as long, and then Mowed under the road 
through a broad culvert. < m the east side, where 
il came out, exactly where Mahoney's building 
-lands, it was covered by the engine house which 
the town built, after the old one at the foot of 
Walnut Street was torn down. The brook as it 
stretched along beside the road over a stony 
bottom, was clear and not very deep, and its 



which came from Brighton on market days: and 
few drivers were so heartless as to hurry them 
through without allowing them to drink their till 
The railroad bridge and the street cover all the 
space 1 he brook thus occupied, and the driveway to 
the depoi is where the old road used to be. The 

railroad was not continued beyond the depot in 
the village for several years, and therefore there 
being no necessity for a bridge, the old road and 
the watering-place beside it remained a few years 
longer. 

Brookline at the present time may be said to 

After the opening of Beacon Streel as a narrow consist of four quite clearly defined districts. 

town street in 1852, the neighborhood where it was which merge into each other it is true, but are 

intersected by Harvard Street became a minor nevertheless essentially distinct in character 

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While the town takes care of and builds its own 
local sewers, the operation of the general system 
and the disposal of the sewage are under the con- 
trol of the Metropolitan Board. The cost of the 
Metropolitan system is apportioned to each locali- 
ty in proportion to service estimated to be ren- 
dered, and the moiiev i- paid by the town or city 
into t he state treasury annually as a portion of the 
-late tax. 

Brookline's Artistic Development. 



BRt hQKLINE, M. 1 55. 1 C 111 SETTS 



First, there is the old village on the southern bor- 
der of the town, along the parkway and at the 
conjunction of the highways, which contains 
dwellings, stores and simps of an ordinary charac- 
ter, and is not particularly different from any 
similar community. Second, tin 1 eastern end of 
the town, including the districl known as Long- 
wood, which adjoins the Hack I '>a\ in Boston ; this 
contains many closely limit Mocks of buildings, 
and lias a citified appearance, especially mi the 
lower portion of Beacon Street and the immediate 



are tin' show places of the town, and sot I' 

t hem are notable lor t heir beauty. 

It i- to tins latter part of her territory that 
Brookline owe.- much of her reputation. As has 
been said : " The w hole of t his neighborhood is a, 

sort of landscape garden. " lion, Ftoberl C. VVin- 
throp In Ins address at the dedication of the town 
hall. teb. 22, is?:!, said: "Brookline was for a 

long lime pre-eminent in the littl rdon of 

towns which have so long constituted the ex- 
quisite environs of Boston, embossing it with a 




RESIDENCE < >V .MU. \\ 11,1.1AM UIIITMW. ( ii >I >| > \l,'l > AYEXCE 



neighborhood. Third, the middle and north- 
eastern part of the town, including the region oc- 
cupied by Fisher's, Aspinwall and Corey Hills, the 
.-lopes of which and t In- valleys bet ween are dotted 
with detached residences situated in small estates 
ot from a few thousand feet to an acre or two; 
the effect being an appearance of neighborliness 

wit hout close contact . Fourth . the west el ii I of t he 
the town, and especially the southwest part . w here 
are situated many extensive estate.-, the country 
se.lts of well-known people or families. These 



rich ami varied margin of lawn and lake and mi a 
dow and wooded hillside, and encircling its old 
'plain neck' with an unfading wreath of bloom 
and verdure. I think no one will dispute her 

claim to have given the earliest celebrity to those 

environs for rural culture and beauty. Visitors 
from other countries or from other state-, carried 
home with t hem a deeper impression of the charms 
of this spot and its surroundings than of any other 
region in New England. Nature had done much, 
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producing this result. Nowhere did horticulture 
fiii< 1 earlier or more successful votaries than here. 
Nowhere could there be sought and tumid mure 
exquisite flowers or more delicious fruits in season 
or nut of season, in the open air or under glass 

During the early pari of the nineteenth century 
the estates of Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins 
and his brother Samuel (!. Perkins in this neigh- 
borhood were noted for their fine landscape effects 
and for the quality of fruit and flowers rawed in 
their greenhouse? Col Perkins was one of the 
chief patrons n\' the Institution for the Mine] in 
South Boston, and it was named after him. His 
estate was kepi up at an expense of more than ten 
thousand dollar- annually, experienced foreign 
gardeners being employed. In his time Col. Per- 
kins was one .it' the leading merchants of Boston. 
Mr Samuel Perkins, who had a fruit house on his 
estate two hundred feet in length, excelled all his 
neighbors in his ability to raise fine fruits and 
flowers, and he introduced many new varieties ol 
iii 1 1 1- from abroad. 

At one time the old Aspinwall estate on Aspin- 
wall Hill was famous for it- orchards. Augustus 
Aspinwall who died in IMi.~>. was a very successful 
cultivator of grapes, and at the exhibitions of the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society he made fre- 
quent exhibitions ol n ises 

\iiiu- Lawrence, a celebrated Boston nierchanl 
and philanthropist, became t lie owner of that por- 
tion ui' the old Mull gran! which forme. I the lower 
part of Judge Sewall's farm, in the section known 
as l.ongwood, which derived its name from the 
■ 1 1 ; 1 1 i .I w Hand formerly extending from Aspin- 
wall Avenue to the Mill Dam. on the bluff along the 
northern bank of Muddy River. Here Mr, 
Lawrence established an elegant estate which a 
quarter oi a century ago ranked with the finest in 
other portions of the town. 

i tiie of the iiiu-t famoii- estates in Brookline is 
thai uf the Sargenl family. It is known as 
"Holm Lea." is a beautiful place of over one 
hundred acres, composed of hill and dale, gi mh 

rolling, will 'adows, winding roads, woods and 

a ml i- -it iiated in t he region soul h of the 
kir-t Church. 

Ignatius Sargent, the father of the present 
owner. Prof. Charles S Sargent, devoted a greal 
deal of time, mure than half a centurv, to the 
cultivation of grapes, and since then it has been 
famous for its abundance of rhododedrons, 



azaleas, and an extensive and rare collection of 
native and foreign trees and shrubs. At certain 
tune- this estate i- throw n open to the public 
Before it came into the possession of the Sargenl 
family this estate was the property of Mr. Thomas 
Lee, whose wife, Mrs. Eliza Buckminster Lee of an 
old Brookline family, was an author of some re- 
pute in her day. 

1 ndoubtedly at the present lime the most 
picturesque and the must beautiful estate in 
Brookline is Faulkner Farm, the property ol Mrs. 
Edward D. Brandegee, formerly Mrs, Sprague, 
widow of the late Congressman Charles F. Sprague. 
I he estate lies west of those already mentioned, 
on the southern border of the town, south of the 
grounds of the Country Club, casl <>( Walnut 
Hills Cemetery, and i- bounded by Newton Street 
and Allendale Road. This extensive tract has 
been improved by the utmost skill of the landscape 
architect, so thai to original features of rugged 
hillsides and woods have been added all the charms 
thai the art of man can devise, by clearings giving 
beautiful vistas, and the placing of tree- and 
shrubs where the best effect- are had. until the 
result hasbeenacuhnination ol effects thai is very 
impressive and satisfying, On the estate is a hill of 
considerable elevation- much higher than on 
t he neighboring properties and on this the house 
is built. It is a modern brick structure, three 
stories in height, with wings mi each end, a fine 
facade facing an inclosed courl on the south. and 
an Italian garden at the we-t end. It is situated 
en the brow of the lull, and with the surrounding 
grouping of tree- i- eminently in harmony with 
it - setting, From it- terrace- and garden- a mosl 
magnificent view is spread out. including till the 
hills in the western part uf Brookline; to the 
southeast, on the horizon, are the Blue Hills; to 
the south and ea-t in the foreground are the Ron 
bun Hill-: northward is Chestnut Hill, and be- 
yond tire I he elevations in the New tons, i he whole 
forming an unsurpassed picture of beauty. The 
Italian garden i- about 200 \i-r\ by I 13, and i- en- 
tirely enclosed by a wall with gate- "At the 
lartlie-t puint from the house .and marking the 
limits of the garden, is the Casino, a graceful, 
charming structure, entirely unenclosed on the 
garden front .and decorated within in the Pompeii- 
an style in colors. Beyond is a poo] with a foun- 
tain, and mi either side stretch the columns and 
piers of the pergola. The whole of the pace 



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otherwise unoccuj>ied is given to the garden pro- 
per, to the plants and shrubs which make it joyous, 
and to the aii \\ > irk- which give il life. The foliage 
is chiefly that of perennials, but ample space has 
been left for annual plant.-, and many brilliant 
notes of color are worn by this combination of 
natural growth. The garden contains not a few 
furnishings in the form of old wine jars, well heads 
from Venice, classic busts, carved stone work and 
balustrades. Vet every one of these objects has 
been placed with care and with a result in view 



times as the Walley place and the Tildeii place. 
Faulkner Farm estate is open to the public even 
Wednesday afternoon, during the summer, and 
many people avail themselves of the opportunity 
t<> visit it. 

Among the other extensive and beautiful estates 
worthy of mention in this section of Brookline, a 
few may be noted: The Farz Andersen estate. 
formerly the Weld, on Avon Street, is situated 
conspicuously on a hill, and has an Italian garden 
similar to Faulkner Farm in dimensions and con- 




CSIDENCE OF MRS. E. D. BRANDEGEE, MOUNT W'ALLEY AVENUE. 



thai has justified its employment." The hill on 
which this house stands was one of the outposts of 
Washington's line of circumvallation around Bos- 
ton when he besieged the British army there dur- 
ing the Revolution. A house stood here at that 
time, and the hill has long been known as Mount 

Walley. IV the Hon. Samuel II. Walley, who at 

one time owned the house and estate. The old 
house was a square hip-roofed structure, was 
built early in the eighteenth century, had many 
successive owners, and was knownt at various 



struction. On Warren Street is the extensive 
estate of Mrs. John Lowell Gardner, who resides 
here in the summer and in her Italian palace on 
the Back l'.a\ . Boston, in the winter. In the near 

neighborh 1 is the former residence of the Hon 

Robert ('. VVinthrop, now the property of Mr 
Moses Williams. The estates of William Whit- 
man. Dr. Charles G. Weld. Flint C. Fee, John G. 
Wright, (ieorge F. Fabyan, Sherman F. Whipple, 
and alsu .1. M. Longyear who is erecting a beauti- 
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The Theodore Lyman estate has been in that nal forest trees have been cut down, but they have 

family fur generations, and 1ms noticeable land- been replaced by-descendants. andbynew varieties 

scape feature-: one of the entrances to its grouped and isolated, which by theirsituationalong 

grounds has the finesl overarching avenues of roads, on si. .pes. or near dwellings, a. hi a beauty 

tree- in the town. The Schlessinger, .-fate on which the old foresl giants never did to the sur- 

Warren Street, is a large property, and its sunken rounding landscape. The marshes and the val- 

garden bordering the roadway i- especially strik- leys have been drained, many depressions filled up. 

ing. The house of Miss Julia Goddard on Green the riverway re-made, and the whole territory 

Hill. Warren Street according to the in- transformed by roads, paths, lawns and dwellings 

scription on the chimney was ere. -ted in 1730, by int.. ,•. place which seen on a tine .lav in summer 

Xehemiah Davis, but it then consisted of only hastheappearanceofaterrestrialparadi.se. Fr 

four rooms and two chambers. The house and the slopesof the hills the views of the neighboring 

estate, then of about one hundred acres, became hillsides, covered with fine artistic dwellings. 

in 1793 the property of Senator George Cabot, the immeshed in trees, surrounded by lawns and 

great grandfather of Senator Lodge and after sue- shrubbery, reached by perfectly constructed and 

■ .■ changes of ownership it 1 ame the prop- well-kept winding roads and paths, present a con- 

erty of Mr. Samuel Goddard. in whose family it stanl succession of charming effects which are 

has since remained. hardly surpassed anywhere. 

It would be a work of supererogation to men- Mrookline as it exists today well illustrates the 

tion more of these houses and estates. The truth of what Charles Kh,.t once wrote: "The 

whole countryside is filled with them. work of man and his dome-tic .animal- mi the 

N'he striking feature in this region is not the | aru ] an ,| vegetation of rural Xew England has 

architecture: for except it asional instances greatly increased the variety, interest and beauty 

that, while appropriate and excellent, is not the of theprimitivelandscape. * * * Standing here we 

impressive feature. The landscape is the thing. perceive that all of man's works uj the surface 

The winding road- the rolling hills, the tree- ,,f the earth his useful tields. his orchards, his 

-Landing out againsl the sky, the wide stretching | :m ,.< a nd cottages In- temples of the gods none 

fields, the vistas through the trees, are the features ,. ;in be separated from the natural and historical 

which impress and make a visit t.. tin- rep conditions which give birth to them and surround 

worth while. I hem. ' ' 

Here finally ha- Keen evolved a beautiful coun- If man can so change and modify the surface of 

try-side— to use that expressive and accurate old t he around, and make his material dwelling place 

English word— which in its presenl condition, such a scene of beauty as compared with its origi- 

outside the limits of the original village and it- n al condition, the hope springs up that finalh hi 

imt liate neighbor)) 1. is much more charming, after the lapse of other generations, may be able 

more satisfying to the eye, more pleasure-giving to so arrange and adjust the relation-' of men to 

in it- effect to multitudes of people than ever it ,. ;lr j, ,,ther a- to bring about a social state which 

was or could have I n in its natural condition. vv j]] i„. j us ter. nobler, more equitable -in fad in 

When the fir-t settlement was made, its hills were harmony with the material aspect of the greater 

covered with virgin forests, in s place- no portion of this country-side. 

doubt relieved by grand cathedral-like vistas, 
but as a whole, -ombre, dense, gloomy, awesome 

and impenetrable. shutting out the view and hid- .^ church as & y^ Institution> 
ing the landscape: while the lower grounds. 

covered with mar-he-, were generally impassible. When Mrookline was incorporated in 1705, it 
and, from a scenic point of view, uninviting. was on condition that the inhabitants "build a 
Now, as a result of the labors of ten generations of n eeting house and obtain an able orthodox minis- 
men, the original conditions have been greatly ter * * * * within the space of three years next 
modified The highest of the original hills re- coming." hi those days in the colony of Massa- 
main. while many of the lower elevations have chusettes May the church was a very essential part 
been cul away or greatly changed. All the origi- of the community; indeed church and state < re 

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in reality firmly united, for the man who refused 
to affiliate himself with the town church was both 
a social ami political outcast, as membership in 
and attendance at church were pre-requisites to 
the full enjoyment of tin- political privileges of 
a freeman. 

'I'lif people of the new town of Brookline natu- 
rally expected to establish a meeting house of their 
own and seftle a minister, but for the first few 
years after the incorporation they were too poor to 
do so. During this period it appears they wor- 
shiped with the First Church in Roxbury, which 



171(1 was favorably considered. June 10, 1713, a 
further extension of time was granted; but early 
in that year a committee of three men was ap- 
pointed to survey the town "to find the centre or 
middle thereof and to inquire where a convenient 
place may he procured whereon to build a meet- 
ing house, a- near the centre of said town as may 
he." It was reported to the town meeting, Dec. 
•J. 1713, that Mr. Caleb < lardner, Jr., would give a 
piece of land near his dwelling on "the left hand 
of the n.ad leading to Roxbury." on which to 
1, uilda meeting house. This offer was accepted, 




RESIDENCE I >1' MRS. A.J. HOUGHTON, KENT STREET. 



was nearer to them than the mother church in 
Boston. Indeed, an arrangement was made in 
1698 between the inhabitants of .Muddy River and 

"the selectmen of RoxblllV with the Deacons." 

that one fifth part of the expense of repairing the 
Roxbury meeting house be paid by the people of 
Muddy River; and in 1699 this sum was found to 
be six pounds and four shillings. 

Brookline petitioned Governor Dudley in 1709 
for three years longer to build the meeting house 
and settle a minister, and a similar petition in 



ami a meeting house ordered built of the same 
dimensions as the one in the southwest part of 
Roxbury. 

At the town meeting March 1 . 17K'>-1 I an assess- 
ment of one hundred and fifteen pounds was vot< d 
lo pay the expense of building the meeting house, 
this amount tube "levied by way of rate upon the 
inhabitants in the same way that the Province tax 
is." November in. 1711. the building was 
raised, and was located westward of Mr. ( Gardner's 
house on the north side of Walnut Street, on the 



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the 26th of < Ictober, 1717. by the Rev. Mr. Thayer 
of the Second Church in Roxbury. At that time 
seventeen males and twenty-two females were 
united in church fellowship." Dr. Pierce says 
thai the Rev. Mr. Allen was ordained "minister of 
this church and people'' on November 5, 1718, 
bu1 the town records say thatat a meeting on Oct. 
7, 1717. it was "voted thai the 13 day of Novem- 
ber lie the day for the ordination of Mr. Allen." 
The founders of the Church and original members, 
according to I >r. Pierce, were : 



John Winchester. Jr.. son of John. 

Caleb Gardner, son of Thomas, 

Benjamin White, 1 leacon, son of Joseph. 

Samuel White, son of Joseph, 

Amos ( lates, 

Ebenezer Kenrick, 

Addington < lardner, 

Sisters: 

Mary Gardner, wife of Thomas, 

Joanna Winchester, wife of John. Sen., 

Hannah White, wife of Joseph, 




RESIDENCE OK VIR. CALEB CHASE, BEACON ST REE' 



Brethren : 

James Allen. Pastor. 
Thomas < lardner, 1 >eacon. 
John Winchester, 
Joseph White, 
Josiah Winchester, 
Samuel Sewall, 
William Story. 
Joseph ( ioddard, 

'I h as Stedman 

Joshua Stedman, 



Mary Winchester, wife of Josiah 

Mary Boylston, 

Sarah Stedman. 

1 tesire Ackers. 

Hannah Stedman. 

Rebecca Sewall. wife of Samuel, 

Abigail Story. 

Mary Stedman, 

Sarah Winchester, 

Abiel Gardner. 

Ann White, wife of Samuel, 



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Hannah rlenrick, public charge that arises in the town, in either 

Tryphena Woodward, of these cases afore mentioned any such person 

Eunice Clark, or persons shall forfeit their right to t heir pew and 

Mary Gardner, it shall return again to the town to lie disposed of 

Susanna Gardner, by them to any other person. Provided that the 

Elizabeth Boylston, town pay hack to the last proprietor so much 

Elizabeth Taylor, money as the town received lor the spot or space 

Francis Winchester, whereon the pew was buill and also the cost of 

A manuscript found between the floors in the building the. -ante." 

house of Deacon Benjamin White when it was The Rev. .lames Allen, or "Allin" as the old 

pulled down in 1809, contained an account of how town records spell the name, was pastor of the 

the congregation was seated in this house on church from his ordination until his death. Feb. 

.March 9, 1719: "Whole number of individuals IS, 1747, at the age of 56. He thus served the 

seated lili. of whom 2S couples were men and church and people between twenty-nine and 

wives." They did not sit together, but in the thirty years, during which time 115 new members 

seats set apart for the sexes. were added, ''besides forty-four who owned the 

Caring for the church and its interests was as covenanl without coming to the Lord's table. 

much a part of the public duty of the town as was The baptisms were I wo hundred and sixty -one. 

the ma mi etna ice of roads, or any other obvious While he seems to have been a talented, judicious 

public duty. The minister was considered a town and faithful minister, he provoked dissension in 

functionary; his salary was paid out of the taxes ; the church during the religious revival produced 

the care of the meeting house was constantly in by the preaching of the Rev. George Whitefield, 

the thoughl of the people, and matters relating to by first favoring and t hen opposing t his ' 'awaken - 

it. such as repairs, location and letting of pews. inn.'' This vacillation on his part brought 

building of a steeple, and the opening of roads so about the withdrawal from the church of a nuni- 

thal the townspeople could reach H more readily, ber of members, who in a letter addressed to him 

were discussed and settled in town meeting as April 'I'l, 1744, state their reasons for seceding. 

part of the official business of the town. The re- The signers of this letter were Ebenezer Kenrick, 

assignment of pews was frequent in the town .Nathaniel Shepard, John Seaver, Jr., Elhanan 

meetings. Thus on June 13, 1734, Justice Samuel Winchester, Jr., Richard Seaver, and Dudley 

White was given "the deserted pew formerly Boylston, Jr., Elhanan Winchester subsequently 

Joseph Gardner's" on the payment of twenty became the leader of a new religious sect, the 

pounds into the town treasury ; Dr. Zabdial Boyl- "New Lights." The austere spirit as to religion 

-ton was given "the deserted pew that was his which prevailed at that time, the awe which the 

Brother Peter Boylston's," for twenty-two dignity of the ministry then inspired, the gloomy 

pounds; Henry Winchester was assigned a pew, and fearsome views as to the future life held by 

price thirteen pounds; Abraham Woodward, ten the majority, provided suitable environment and 

pounds; Samuel Clark, thirteen pounds; John opportunity tor extravagant religious manifesta- 

Goddard, ten pounds. The tenure on which the tions in revivals and the promotion of new sects 

pews were held is evident from the following re- so common at that period, but which are so dilti- 

cord of March Hi. 1716, confin 1 in substance cult for the people of the present to understand. 

June 13, 17.'!7: Mr. Allen undoubtedly saw in a measure the folly 

"Voted that those pel-sons that are allowed to ofsomeof the religious excesses thai were common, 

be proprietors of pews, or spaces whereon to erect and after realizing their character spoke out 

pews in the meeting house, they and their hears againsl them. The trouble incident thereto no 

shall have good and legal right to them forever. doubt preyed upon his mind, and "is said to have 

Provided nevertheless that if any person who is a been the cause of the consumption which ended 

proprietor of a pew shall remove out of the town his life. " March 2, 1746-7 the town voted to raise 

so that he dwell not in t he said town, or if reduced sixty pounds toward defraying Mr. Allen's funeral 



to such mean circumstances that he or they do 
not , neither are able to pay their proportion to the 



expenses. 



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Ill J ^'. Cotton Brown succeeded Mr. Allen as 
minister. He was chosen by the town meeting 
Feb. 29, 1747-S, and ii was voted his salary be 
''■"'i)H pounds a year ok] tenor, and thai lie have 
600 pounds towards lus settlement." lb' ac- 
cepted "ii condition that Inn pounds be added to 
the amount of his settlement, making in ■all a 
thousand pounds, "the last part of it to be paid 
within 3 years. ' ' ( lei . 2(i, 1 7 IS, lie was ordained, 
the town having voted t<i raise 120 pounds to de- 
fray the expenses thereof. Mr. Brown died April 



he accepted the call December IS; "but parlies 
arising among the people on the ground thai he 
was a foreigner whose early life they had 
nut personally known, he was induced to leave 
them withoul ordination, and was settled at 
Rehoboth, where he fulfilled a long ministry, 
honorable to himself and profitable to his people. " 
This settlement was in conformity with the advice 
of a mutual council of the neighboring churches, 
suggested to be held 1>\ a vote of the town, Ma\ 
Hi, I 7">ii. and the tm\n by advice of t his " Venera- 




l;l SIDEXCE hi MR. El. MOT C, l.l'.i: \\ \RREN STREET. 



13, 1751, aged 25 years, having been minister of 
the town church less than I wo years and a half. 

1 or si n ne years thereafter the town was wit In ml 
a settled minister, bill the pulpit was supplied by 
the neighboring ministers. 'The Rev. Samuel 
Haven, afterwards of Portsmouth, was invited 
Dec. 10, 1751, to become the minister by a vote of 
the town meeting, and Jan. I, 1753, the Rev. 
Stephen Badger, afterward of Natiek, was invited, 
but both declined. Oct. 15, 1753, Rev. Robert 
Rogerson, "a young man of unimpeachable 
character, a native of Scotland," was invited, and 



ble Council" voted Mr, Rogerson twenty pounds 
March 3, 1755. 

I'll. in \'..\ . 19, 1755, in June 17. 1759, the \l<-\ 
Nathaniel Potter was minister, and was dismissed 
at his own request, on condition, however, thai he 
would repay the town his settlemenl monev 
amountingtoan hundred and thirty-three pounds, 
six shillings and eighl pence. Mrs. 1'ntter appeal's 
tn have settled this indebtedness by paying £66, 
13s and Id. less £20, Is and Sd, due Mr. Potter 
from the town, on November 5, 17.V.). as appears 
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give satisfaction, and the refusal of the town to 
raise his salary or increase his allowance of fire- 
wood, prompted him to tender his resignation. 

A bill which has I n preserved of the expenses 

incurred in connection with the ordination of Mr. 
Potter, Nov. 19, 17.")."). illustrates the habits of the 
limes, and explains, perhaps, some of the reasons 
which prompted the protest as to the "cost ami 
manner of t he dinner at the raising of t he meeting 
house," Nov. HI, 171 1, This bill, which was pre- 
sented to tin' town by Deacon Elisha Gardner, 
was as follows: 
to monney Pad til The ordination, old tenor 

£6,000 
to Hum 1.1 in 

to Shugar 1 ,106 

to spice 

to nieces (turkeys?) 3,000 

to fouls 1,100 

i., pork :-;.<)4i; 

to crambres 0,080 

to puding pans 0,1">(> 

£ 18,026 

"( if 1 1 1 is charge the selectmen ordered the pay- 
ing of £2, 8s, Id. and probably the society paid 
t In 1 rest . « trili nations in t hose days evidently in- 
volved the consideration of material as well as 
spirit ual wants. 

With its next minister the low n ha.l better suc- 
cess than with his immediate predecessors. At 
the town meeting held on Dec. 24, 17">'.>. the Rev. 
Joseph Jackson, then a tutor at Cambridge, was 
chosen, anil he accepted by a letter written Feb. 
1760. lie had pleached ill the chinch and was 
well known to the people. lie was ordained 
April 'J, 1760, and "through a ministry of more 
than thirty-six years maintained a uniform 
character for prudence, integrity and piety.'' 
Mr. Jackson was the pastor during all the exciting 
period of t he Revolution. He seems to have been 
a man of equable temper, dignified in manner, and 
a good preacher. The chief troubles which con- 
fronted tin' church during his ministry wen- the 
losses of membership through organization oi 
other church societies, started originally in Mr. 
Allen's time by some of the seceding members of 
the old church, but none of which obtained a per- 
manent foothold in the town, although the "New 
Lights" under the lead of Elhanan Winchester 



held religions meetings in dwelling houses for 
more t han a quarter of a century. 

Samuel While offered a woodlol in Needham to 
the town lor t he use of t he ministry, a in I on March 
7. 1 7.")7. t he gift was accepted. At that time only 
the wood on the lot was given, evidently, as the 

language \\>n\ was. "so long as ye w I in said lot 

shall hold out.'' A deed of this lot containing 
about twenty acres, was delivered to l he town 
May 18, 1761, by Henry Sewall, Esq., one of Mr. 

White's executors ; it was dated March 12, 17.">'.t, 
and the consideration was fort)' pounds: m 1835 
the wood on this lot was sold at public auction 
and realized about eight hundred dollars, which 
was divided between the two parishes then ill the 
town. At the annual town meeting March '_', 
1846, a committee consisting of Thomas Griggs, 
Samuel Craft and A. W. Goddard, made a report 
in regard to this woodlol in which the statement 
is made that t his lot as " appears from t he original 
deeds was bought by the town of Samuel White for 
the sum of forty pounds in the year 17">'.h as ex- 
pressed in the deed for the use of Brookline for a 
woodlot to supply I he minister or ministers that 
may be settled in said town from time to time.'' 
This statement does not agree with the general 

impression that I his lot was a "gift " to t he town, 
but its accuracy is unquestioned as n is thoroughly 
borne out by the record. What Mr. White evi- 
dently did give to the town was the wood on the 
lot. before he sold it to the town ; as to the lot 
itself he may have sold It at less than lis value, 
and color is given to this supposition by the 
fact that the expression occurs in the records 
under date of May 18, 1771. "wood lot lying in 
Needham, which said Samuel gave to the town 
of Prookliiie." March 2, 1846, the selectmen 

were directed to sell this lot "and pay over the 
proceeds thereof, one third part to the t reasiner- 
of each of the religious societies now exist i 1 1 l; in 
Brookline." This vote was reconsidered March 
lb. 1846. 

During Mr. Jackson's ministry the town built a 
parsonage. May 31, 1781, it was voted to raise 
the sum of two hundred pounds in silver money 
' ' for the purpose of purchasing a piece of land and 
building a Congregational Ministerial House 
thereon,'' and on March 21. 17S'_', it was voted 
that this amount "be raised by a tax on polls, 
real and personal estates of the inhabitants of this 
town and on non-resident possessors," The lot 



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for the parsonage was given by Mrs. Hannah Wal- 
cott, wife of Edward Kitchen Waleott and a 
daughter of Judge Sewall, and the building was 
erected in 17m'. Mr. Jackson at once occupied 
the house, which adjoined the church, and there 
spent the remainder of his days. August 21, 1S06, 
after the erection of the Second Church, the town 
meeting "voted thai the old meeting house yard 
be added, and is hereby added to the parsonage. 

The Rev. Joseph Jackson died July 22, 1796, 
and was succeeded bv the Rev. John Pierce, who 



livered, beginning with that oi November 24, 
1805, and concluding with the address at the 
opening of the town hall, Oct. II. 1845, contain, 

outside of the town records, th iginal facts of 

the local history of the town to which all subse- 
quent workers in this field have resorted as their 
primary authority on many points. Dr. Pierce 
was born in Dorchester, July 14. 177:i. was grad- 
uated from Harvard College in 1793, and for the 
nexl two years was assistant preceptor al Leices- 
ter Academy. lit- was married to Miss Lovell of 




RESIDENCE OK JOHN k\n\ MARSHALL, CORE"^ IIII.I. 



was ordained March l~>. I7!>7, and continued as 
minister of the church until his death, August 24, 
1849, a period of fifty-six years. Dr. Pierce's 
ministry was the most notable not only in the his- 
tory of the church but also of the town. He was 
an active, energetic man. imbued with public spirit 
and with a decided interesl in men and affairs; 
during the course of his long pastorate he became 
thoroughly acquainted with the town and its 



Med way in October, 1798, but she died in July, 
1800, leaving an infant son. who lived bul two 
years. In 1802 he was married to Lucy Tappan 
of Northampton. An interesting sketch of Dr. 
Pierce's life, written by Thomas B. fox, was pub- 
lished in 1861, in the second volume of American 
Unitarian Biography edited by William Ware. 

Soon after Dr. Pierce began his ministry i1 was 
apparent that the old meeting house, which bud 



pcopl... He may with truth be said to have been Keen in use more than fourscore years, was not 

the original historian of the town, because the 



various discourses of a historical character he de- 



large enough to accommodate tin 1 increasing 
population of the town. Accordingly, at the 



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town meeting May 13, 1802, it was voted to choose 
a committee "to examine the slate of the meet- 
ing house, whether it is in a situation to enlarge, 
and it' it will admit of an enlargement, how many 
new pews may lie made and what measure is 
best Ini- the town in adopt to accomplish the 
same.'' Dr. Aspinwall, Stephen Sharp, Deacon 
Robinson, Colonel Gardner and Nathaniel Mur- 
dock, were members "1 this committee, which on 
June 1 1. reported in favor of enlarging the meet- 
ing house. 

The same men. with the exception of Nat ham el 
Murdock, were chosen in carry nut the work. 
This vote was. however, reconsidered on May 11. 
1803. Meanwhile an attempt was made in burn 
i he did edifice, l>ut t he lire was discovered and e . 
tinguished after it had dune some damage in one 
of the rear corners. April L\ 1804, the town 
meeting "Voted that a reward of five hundred 
dollars be given to any person who may detect i he 
villain or villains that attempted in hum the 
meeting house in i his town." Ai the same meet 
ing a cum mil lee of nine persons was chosen ' ' to 
enquire whether a new situation for a meeting 
house can be procured ami on what terms 
whether an addition to the presenl spot can be ob- 
tained In make an estimate oi the expense oi a 
new meeting house — and what shall be done with 
the present meeting house and what compensa- 
tion shall he made to the presenl pew holders in 

case the town should determine in build, and all 
such other matters a- pertain in the subject." 
The committee reported, May lii. 1804. in favor of 
building a new house, on t lie site of t he old edifice, 
a- a small piece of adjoining land could I" 1 -< 
cured. To use the old site was found, however, 
impracticable, probably from lack of room, and 
mi Sept ."). 1804, it wa- voted in build the new 
house on the largest of two lots of land east of the 

brick school house the site occupied by the 

present edifice of I he First I niiarian Society, 
junction of Walnut and Warren Streets. The 

ci. riier -tmie wa- laid in April. 1805, and the 
structure was creeled li\ Mr. 1'eter Banner, an 
Englishman, who was both architect and master 
builder. This church is thus described by Miss 
Woods: 

''The new meeting house stood fronting the 
-treet, with a grass plot in front of ii. li was 
sixty-eighl feet long and sixty-four feel wide, 
with a porch nineteen feet long and thirty-eight 



feet W hie There were lobbies OI - a III e-l'i n ill is each 

side of the porch, eleven feel square. There was 
nn cellar under the building, it being a rocky 
foundation, and the house was raised up a little 
from the ground, and openings on either side in 
the underpinning afforded space fur ventilation. 
The height of the house wa- thirty-five feet and six 
nches from the foundation to the eaves. The 
spire measured one hundred and thirty-seven 
feet from the ground. There were seventy-four 
pew- on the Hour and fourteen in the gallery." 

In the original church there was no arrange 
mem I'm- heating, according to the custom of the 
period, bill I he women carried foot stoves with 
them. In the new edifice the conditions at lirst 
were the -ainc iii regard to heating as hail pre- 
vailed in the old, and il was not until the winter of 
IMS thai stoves were introduced, as is shown by 
the following vote passed on November Sth ol 
thai year: 

"Voted the report of the committee be accepted 
and that permission be granted to have the stoves 
erected in the meeting house agreeable to the re 
port of t he committee. 

These stoves were to ' ' be supported and taken 
care of at t he expense of I he tow n. 

Among the donations to the church were; 
The bell, which was cast in London, cosl a thous- 
and pounds, and was given by lion. Stephen Hig- 
ginson : the pulpit and caps of the pews, of south- 
ern cherry given by Mr. Stephen Higginson, son of 
the above; a clock, purchase, I out of four hundred 
dollars given by Mr. John Lucas; i he -tone steps. 
given by Richard Sullivan. Ksq..; a pulpit 
Bible, given by Mr. Thomas Walley; and a bap- 
tismal basin, given by David Hyslop. "The 

whole COSt of 1 he house w a- $18,0S3. Si mie ,'n Idi 

tional expenses, of furnishings probably, broughl 

up the amount In $20,193, and the whole was 
apportioned on the pews which were sold at auc- 
tion." 'The lowest priced pews on the first floor 

were $160, and in the gallery $1 10, and the high- 
est price paid was $525, which included a bonus 
paid for a choice. 'The manner of buying I he 
pews was regulated by the following vote, passed 
May 22, 1S06, which likewise well illustrates the 

close connection between t he town a in I the church : 
"Voted that the right to choose an) pew (sub- 
ject to the conditions hereafter mentioned) shall 
be Mild to the highest bidder at public auction, 
being a freeholder or inhabitant of the town of 



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Brookline and all aon residents being proprietors 
of land in the said town, and those persons be- 
longing tn the first parish in Roxbury who live 
west of Muddy River and adjoining Brookline may 
have an equal privilege to bid al said auction and 
purchase a pew. provided they or any of them 
signify their intention to bid for the same to the 
Town Clerk on the day before the sale, and the 
purchaser shall make his choice forthwith, 
and shall pay the sum he shall bid for his 
choice, together with the sum apportioned on the 
pew of his choice in the following manner, viz., 



When it is considered that the population of 
Brookline in 1800 was |, u t 605, and that these 
people with the small number of persons added 
who were drawn from the portion of the village 
thru in Roxbury, constituted the entire neighbor- 
hood, it is evident thai the available congregation 
was limited. Still, all were church going people 
and were obliged to contribute to the support of 
the church in paying their taxes. 

Dr. Pierce, consequently, could easily know 
every man. woman and child in the town; he 
seems to have cultivated this knowledge, and was 




RESIDENCE OF FREDERICK I.. GAY, HOLLAND ROAD 



twenty per cenl down (which shall be forfeited 
unless the succeeding payments shall be made at 

the ti s stipulated) and twenty per cenl within 

every sixty succeeding days after the time oi sale 
until the whole is paid with the interest on the 
said payments from the time oi sale. 

' ' Voted that a Ai-al shall be given by the town 
clerk to each purchaser when his or her payments 
are completed, provided they are made in due 
season, otherwise the purchaser shall not be en- 
titled to his died, and shall forfeit his pew and all 
his former payments to the town.'' 



besides an excellent pastor, and a man of cultiva- 
tion and education, lbs written and printed re- 
miniscences contain a very complete record of the 
in ha bit a nt.-. t heir houses and details of t heir lives. 

During the earlier years oi his pastorate, Dr. 
Pierce's salary was only S400 annually, but was 
afterward gradually increased to double thai 
amount. In addition, however, he had a free 
house and his tire wood from the minister's lot in 
Xeedham. 

At t his period i he people of the town were chiet- 
lv farmers and mechanics, with a few wealthy 



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landholders and old families. The church was the liable to taxation on his poll and property real and 
real centre of the intellectual and social life of the personal for the support of public worship; but 
community. No other influence equalled it in any inhabitant, being a member of any other re- 
scope and power. The town meeting only met ligious society in another town, was entitled under 
occasionally, but the people, both men and alawoflSll to require that any such tax assessed 
women, mel at the church every week and some- should be paid over to his own minister. The as- 
times oftener. tnder these conditions the meet- sessorsofthe town were the parish assessors, the 
ing house Idled the place in the life of the people town clerk was also the parish clerk and the town 
which is now occupied by a large variety of inter- treasurer was the parish treasurer. The parochi- 
ests. and its power was as much or more social al expenses were not paid from any fund kept 
than it was religious. apart fr the funds of the town, but in the esti- 

March l">, 1S47, with the consent of Dr. Pierce, mates of the Minister's salary and other parish 

the Rev. Frederic N. Knapp, was appointed assis- charges were classed as items of a general estimate 

taut past of. and Mr. Knapp was ordained Oct. 6th, of monies required for the disbursements of the 

of the same year. At that time, Dr. Pierce, al- town 

though then 74 years of age, was alert and vigor- "The Supreme Court have decided that when- 

otts. It was during the closing years of Dr. Pierce's ever any number of individuals, being inhabitant 

pastorate that the Congregational Church. — the of any town and belonging to the territorial parish 

old state church as it may be called in Massachu- therein, secede from said parish and form another 

setts, became divided into two parties. Orthodox religious society within thelimitsof the same town, 

and lunarian: and the Brookline church went the property before appropriated by the town to 

with the liberal wing. Dr. Pierce, however, the use of the First Parish shall be considered 

seems not to have taken a very decided stand in t hereafter as t he property of said parish and not of 

tin- matter, but continued to call himself a Con- t he town. 

gregationalist. and so far as deciding between the By this report it is quite evident that church 

two parties, "allied himself with neither, prefer- and state were united in Massachusetts in those 

ring to remain true to t he old traditions which as- days — tor the situation in Brookline w a- I he same 

sneiated the church with the whole town." On as existed elsewhere ; but the law of 1S11 was an 

the death of I )r. Pierce in is 40. his colleague. Rev. equitable solution of the difficulty in the situation, 

Frederic Xewman Knapp, became his successor a- and one. the absence of which ha- been productive 

minister of the church; but Dr. Pierce was the of much bitterness in countries where established 

last n inister who served both town and church. churches exist. 

Intil 1S2S the "meeting house" was the only This committee suggested that the First Parish 

church in the town, but in that year the first edi- (the old meeting house society) lie given title to 

lice of the Baptist Society was erected on the cor- the land on which the house stood to be "appro- 

ner of Harvard and Washington streets. Eventu- priated to the exclusive use of said parish"; 

ally the organization of tin- second church that the land around the meeting house and the 

brought a In 'lit changes in t he relation of the town lot south of it . be common land as bet ween the 

to the old church, and in IS34 a committee was town and parish, except that the town reserved 

appointed by the town to report on this important the right to take gravel and stone from the hill 

matter. This report dated April 7. 1S34, is quite back of the meeting house; and that the income 

explicit, and describes the situation so clearly of the woodlot in Needham be divided between 

that a la rue part of it is herew ith quoted; t he two parishes. This solution was agreed to by 

"The committee appointed to define the inter- vote of the town, and it marks the dividing line of 

ests of the town and the first Parish as they t he old era from the new — the town affairs being 

stand related, having considered the subject, re- conducted separately from the affairs of the church. 

port: That until the organization of the second A final settlement of the joint ownership of the 

religious society the First Parish under the exist- town and church was brought about at a town 

ing law- was deemed to be a territorial parish, meeting Dec. 6, 1S47, when it was 

and a.- such its limits were identical with those of "Voted, That the select men be and they are 

the town, and each and every inhabitant was hereby directed to execute, acknowledge and de- 

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liver to the first Parish in Brookline, a quit claim 
deed on the part of the town, releasing in fee sim- 
ple all the rights of the town in and to all that lot 
of land on which the meeting house now stands. 
bounded north and west by Walnut Street, south 
by land formerly of Samuel Clark, east by a line 
identical with the east side of the range of horse 
sheds standing in the rear of the late town house, 
north by a line passing along the north side oi the 
shed nearest said house, and east by a line drawn 
parallel to the west side of said house and fifteen 



the benefit of light, air and prospeel for the a I- 

joining estates. 

This last lot, which still remains open, was "the 
first village green, the site of the firsl town 
school, and later of the brick scl I. ' ' 

With the settlement in 1834. the separation of 
the church from the town may lie said to have 
taken place, and it was emphasized in 1S47 when 
the property was definitely divided. From that 
time the history of the town and the church are 
distinct. 




RESIDENCE OK .1 M. I.ONGYEAK, FISHER'S llll.l. 



feet distant therefrom, upon receiving from said 
parish a like deed of release to this town and all 
persons claiming under it. of all the residue of the 
land described in the deed to this town from Wil- 
liam Aspinwall and Stephen Sharp, dated Sept. .">. 
1804. * * * But the legal rights of the owners 
of the horse sheds standing on the land to be re- 
h asi d to the parish are to be excepted in the deed. 
and the tow n is to cove nant that the triangular lot 
of land lying east of the c state of John E. Thayer 
shall forever remain open and unencumbered, for 



The Church as a Voluntary Organization. 

While tl riginal Brookline church had for 

more than two centuries been the only housi ol 
worship in the town, it had well fulfilled its func- 
tions. It was not only a religious but a political 
institution, a publicly owned and managed church , 
but the form of its organization was in harmony 
with the character of the people whom it served. 
The New England people were a homogeneous 
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community; its people have always been among 
the must progressive and public spirited, and its 
ministers and leading men have always taken an 
active interest in education and in the movements 
which have made the town what it is at present. 
A pleasant survival of the old times, which in 
sentiment connects the best of the present with 
the best (if the past, is thus told by Mr. Bolton ill 
his book, "Brookline: the History of a Favored 
Town," as follows: ''The old custom of ringing 
the bell at seven every moring, at noon, and at 
nine o'clock everj evening, has been continued 
through all these years of change. And still upon 
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March, 1S30, and he was succeeded by the Rev. 
Joseph A. Warne. who began In- ministry April 
II. 1831, and remained with the church until 
December 31, IS36. During Mr. VVarne's minis- 
try the baptisms took place in the salt waters of 
Muddy River near the present bridge al the cud of 
Washington Street ; but his successor, Mr. Shailer, 
preferred to go to the more open waters oi the 
Charles River. 

The next pastor of the Baptist church was Rev. 
William II. Shailer. who was installed Sept. 1, 
1S37, and continued to serve the society until 
Jan. 31, 1854, a period of over sixteen years. He 
did much to upbuild the church, and was greatly 
interested in the cause of education and in promo- 




RESIDENCE OK JOHN V. OLMSTED, W VRRKN STREE'l 



After holding meetings in private houses, for 
some time in 1827, a number of persons m Brook- 
line, of the Baptist faith, in March, 1S2S, erected a 
church, twenty-six by thirty-six feet in dimen- 
sions, on the corner of Harvard and Washington 
streets. On June 5th, the Baptist Church in 
Brookline was organized in this edifice with thirty- 
six members. Before the first year had passed 
the first building proved to be too small and the 

society erected another edifice, west of the first. 

which was dedicated November 1. 1828, the three 
deacons of the church. Elijah Corey. Timothy 
and Thomas Griggs, together with Daniel Cool- 
idge and Elijah Corey, Jr., agreeing to bear the 
expense. Rev. Joseph Driver became pastor in 



ting the interests of the town. Shailer Hall in t he 
new Highschool building is named in his honor, in 
recognition of his interest in and services to 
the school- of Brookline. Mr. Shailer was a 
great friend and close associate of Dr. Pierce. 
From May, 1855, to August, 185S, the Hew Nehe- 
iniah M. Perkins was pastor, but ill health com- 
pelled him to give up the work. During Mr. 
Perkins's pastorate a new church building was in 
process of erection, and it was dedicated \>n\ 1. 
[858. A \ear later the Rev. William Lamson 
became the minister, and served the church until 
February, LS75. He was an eloquenl and force- 
ful preacher. Since then the pastors of this 
church have been: Rev. Henry C. Malm. 



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ber of 1849, services being held in the town hall. 
Next year it was decided to erecl a church. Au- 
gustus Aspinwall donated the lot at the corner of the 
present St. Paul Street and Aspinwall Avenue; 
other members gave large sums until a total of 
$12,000 was raised. The building designed by 
Richard Cpjohn. when completed cost for the 
tower and the body of the church complete $26,- 
000, and the extra cost was paid by William Ap- 
pletonand Harrison lay. The bell, worth nearly 
$1,000, was presented by T. C. Bell of London, a 
native of Brookline. The church was o msecrated 
December 23. 1852. Mr. Horton resigned in May, 
1852. and. in September. Rev. John S. Stone was 
chosen rector, and served u in i I October. IS02, 



morial tablets in the church to Henry Savage 
Chase, Harrison lay. Rev. Dr. Stone, and James 
S. Aniorv: and memorial windows to William 
Chadbourne; Man I.ile\ ( 'ani]>i>i'll. wife of \V. I'". 
Humphrey; Marland Cogswell Hobbs; l.ila (!. 
Floyd and Edward K. Floyd, Jr.; Colonel William 
Latham Candler; Sarah Leveretl Chase; Thomas 
Parsons; and Hon. William Aspinwall. who died 
in 1S23, 

Brookline thus had in 1850 three church edifices, 
the First Parish Church (Unitarian), the Baptist 
Church, the Harvard Church. (Orthodox Congrega- 
tionalist i. and one in course of erect ion. St. Paul's 
(Episcopalian). In 1,852, steps were taken to or- 
ganize congregations of Roman Catholics in Brook- 




RESIDEXCE OF JOHN I'. WEHBKR, UEAt'OX STREET 



when Rev. Francis Warton was elected. He re- 
signed in Xovember. 1N69. From that time until 
.March. 1875. Rev. William Wilberforce Xewton. 
D. D., was rector, and he was succeeded by the 
present rector, the Rev. Leonard Kip Storrs. I). 
1 >.. in I lecember, 1875. 

During Dr. Storrs's service as rector, the chapel 
on the north side was added. In 1885, the rectory- 
was built in memory of Mr. Henry S. Chase, by 
his children. In 1896, a parish house was built 
aftet designs by Mr. J. A. Schweinfurth. and is 
said to be in harmony architecturally with the 
church, which has always been considered a 
masterpeice of Richard L'pjohn. There are inc- 



line and Bright i in. a large numer of fa mi lie- of thai 
fait h having settled in both towns. Rev. Michael 
t I'Beirne was delegated to do this work, and suc- 
ceeded so well that the erection of St. Mary's 
Church of the Assumption was begun that year in 
Andeni Place. Meanwhile services were held in 
Lyceum Hall. 'Lin- first services in the new 
church were held on Christinas day. 1853. ami 1 he 
church was dedicated Sept. 24, 1854. The Rev. 
Mr. O'Beirne was obliged to give up the work on 
account of failing health, and in December. 1854, 
the Rev. J. M. I i in .1 1 i took charge of the parish, 
but he was not actually appointed pastor until 
Me.'. S, IS56. On Thanksgiving Dav, Nov. 27. 



BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

1855, the church came near being destroyed liv General Pastor, the Rev. Thomas Worcester, 
fire, but ii was at once repaired and enlarged, the with twenty members, name]} : Tilh R Hay- 
sealing capacity being increased to over one ward, William A Wellman, Matilda G. Wellman, 
thousand. A greal increase in the congregation I'heophilus I'. Chandler, Kli/a J. Chandler, 
soon after look place, and for some time Rev. -I David Wilder. Jr., Celia Cotton Wilder, Sarah 
('. Murphy was associated with Father Finotti as Searlc. Abraham I.. Cutler, Harriel H. Cutler, 
colleague. In 1872. shortly after Faster, Father Daniel II Rogers, Lucy S, Rogers. Francis R 
Finotti was succeeded by the Rev. I'. F I. ami). Towne. Man R. Morland, Ellen M Hale. Fllen M. 
who. however, was soon obliged in give up tin' Wellman. Fdwin Field, Sarah M. Field, William 
work of caring for the parish and go south on ac- I '• I la -el i me. [Catherine II Haseltine, nearly all of 
count of liis health, lie died in New York, Juh whom were tn embers of the I lost on Society of the 
■">. 1873, and his body was brought home to St. New Jerusalem and resigned to unite in forming 
Mary's, where the funeral services were conducted. the Brookline church. A building corporation. 
The same month the Rev. L. J. Morn- was ap- formed in June. I860, under Massachusetts laws, 
pointed pastor of the parish. Work was begun was authorized to hold property besides the 
mi a new church. Sept. I, I8N0, at the western church building, to the value of $50,000. This 
corner of Harvard Street ami Linden place: the corporation subsequently purchased a lot, corner 
comer si one was laid June 19, 1881, t he sermon of High and Irving Street-, for .$2,000, began the 
being delivered by the Rev. C. IL McKenna. (). erection of a church designed by Philbrick & 
S. B.. while Archbishop Williams took pari in the Wan', architects, in the autumn of 1800, and the 
ceremonies. Services took place in the new building was finished in 1862, at a total cost, 
church for the first time in October. 1882, but it including organ and furnishings, of $12,908.03, all 
was not until August 22, 188(5, thai the church of which was paid a1 the time, except a balance of 
was finished and dedicated. This church is His $3,500. The seating capacity of the new church 
leet m length, of (Inline architecture, with a was about 250. Mr. Hayward continued as min- 
tower on the side toward Harvard Street . and is ister until .July, 18(31. Aug, 12. 1861, Rev. John 

built of brick, with trimmings of Longmeadov (' Ager was invited to bei e the minister for 

brown-tone. Rev, 1. .1 Morris, after a long and one year Feb. 22. 1S62, the church was dedi- 

successful pastorate, died Jan. 11. 1900. and was cated. Rev. Thomas Worcester and Rev. John C. 

immediately succeeded by the Rev. Michael T Vger officiating. Mr. Ager continued as minister 

McManus, who for eighteen years previous had until September, 1S64, and in November of that 

been pastor of St. Patrick'.--. Lawrence, and St. year tin- Rev. Samuel M. Warren was engaged, 

Michael'-- churches, North Andover Since com- and preached tor the society until the spring of 

ingto P. rook 1 1 ne, Father McManus ha.- through hi- 1868. lie was followed by t he Rev. Abie] Si her. 

exertion- cleared off a debt of $34,000 on i he who preached in this church Sunday mornings 

church, and beside- ha- raised an encouraging and in Roxbun in the afternoon. In April, 1871, 

fund toward the erecti f a parochial school, for Mr. Silver ceased to preach in Brookline, and 

which ground i> expected to be broken in the 1 1 1 1 1 li-t ered exclusively thereafter to the New 

spring of 1906. Lather McManus is assisted by Society at Roxburv. Lor two years the pulpit 

Rev. John A. Butler and Rev. George A Costello, was supplied l>\ different ministers until, in the 

who have been in Brookline for yeais. as well as spring of 1873, Mr. Warren (ioddard began to 

by Rev. . I oh 1 1 P. Sheehan, who became connected preach and coni i titled one year; he was then in- 

with the parish early in 1903. vited to become the pastor, and was ordained at 

A movement which resulted in the formation of the requesl of the society, April 2. 1874. April 

a Swedenborgian Church in Brookline, began m 3, 1878, the corporation voted to place the house 

1852, when meetings of person- mieiv-ied n i In- of worship in the custody, care and keeping of the 

faith were held at lii'st in private house.- and after- society, free of rent, so long as the society keeps 

wards in the town hall. The Rev. Tilly P. Hay- the building in good repair, maintains public 

ward wa- the first minister On April 29. 1857, worship therein, and pays the interest on the 

as an outgrowth of these meetings, the Brookline mortgage the rights of the pew- holder- not to be 

Society of the New Church was instituted, by the impaired. June, ISSl.Mr. Goddard resigned, to 

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go i" the Providence, R. I., society, and lie was 
succeeded by Rev. Willard II. Hinckley, who was 
installed as pastor by the Rev. Joseph Pettee, tin' 
General Pastor, on Dim-. 4. ISS1. 

In the summer of ISS2 a parsonage was erected 
in the church grounds at a cosl of $6,000, and on 
lice. Llthof the same year, the corporation exe- 
cutedadeed of this property to the society, under 
the same conditions as the church building was 
transferred on April .">, 1878. March 22, 1S95, tin- 
Rev. Mr. Hinckley resigned, and terminated his 
connection with tin' church, June •'!'). 



York City, and the Rev. Charles \V. Harvey, then 
in tin' Xrw Church Theological School at Cam- 
bridge. Mass., was asked to preach. In the spring 
of 1S99, he was ordained to the ministry hv the 
Rev. James Reed, "I' I '."-ton. ( leneral Pastor of the 
Massachusetts Association of the \ T e\v Church. 
Mr. Harvey is very popular and greatly loved by 
i he members of his church. 

Not until 1863 did the Metho lists appear mi t he 
-i'. 'iir in Brookline. In that year the Rev. Gilbert 
Haven, thru stationed in B iston, and afterwards 
fainnii- as an all ilitionist an I later as a bishop of 




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ESTATE i IF MRS E G. C< iREY SKAKS. 
( 'iu.'kv Hill, Erected 1 S2] . 



For the next year the pulpit was supplied by 
different ministers, with the assistance of Mr. I lab- 
bell in the Sunday School, and in September, 1 896, 
the Rev. Julian K. Smyth, the pastor of the Rox- 
bury snciety. was asked to take ministerial charge 
of the Brookline society of the New Church, with 
a service in the afternoon in addition to his duties 
at Roxbury. With the consent of the Roxbury 
society, Mr. Smyth accepted, and began his min- 
istry in October, 1896. During the winter of 
1S97-S, the Rev. Mr. Warren took charge of the 
Sunday School. In the .summer of 1898, Mr. 
Smyth accepted a call from tin church in New 



his church, held Sunday evening services in the 
town hall. A Methodist society was not, how- 
ever, organized, until IS".'!: it purchased the old 
Harvard Church, now- the Bethany Building on 
Washington Street, then just vacated by the Har- 
vard Congregational Society, and rededicated it 
as a Methodist Church. June 23, 1S73. The Rev. 
\ . I >. Winslow was the first pastor, but he was suc- 
ceeded in the spring of 187-1 by the Rev. Mark 
Trafton, a man of ability and power, financial 
troubles in 1S76 compelled the society to sell the 
Bethany Building, and from lsTti to 1S79 services 
were held in the town hall, ruder the leadership 



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of the Rev. William McDonald, the well-known ing rapidly and attracts large numbers of young 

advocate of the doctrine of holiness, in 1879, a people. 

chapel was build on the southeastern corner of In Longwood, on Colchester Street, the Hon 

Cypress and Washington streets, and since then David Sears erected in istHi a church edifice copied 

the church has prospered. This chapel had lie- after an old church in Colchester, England. This 

come too small for the growing membership of the structure was dedicated June 30, 1S62, and named 

church, and was let in 1892, to the Universalists, Christ's Church. It has Keen devoted to the 

and sold tu them in 1895. Unitarian faith. .Mr. Sears's object was to furnish 

i in April 9, 1892, the corner stone of a new a church "where all might worship in the unity of 
church, situated on the corner of Bark ami Vernon the spirit and the bond of peace. " Among the 
streets, was laid (in that occasion, an historical ministers who have been connected with the church 
address was given by the pastor, the Rev. William were: Rev. James M. Hubbard in 1862; Rev. 
X. Brodbeck, and addresses were also made by C. C. Tiffany, in 1863; Rev. S. B.Crufts.in 1864, 
Bishops Hurst and foster. During the building and a part of 1st;."); Rev. Henry A. Miles, suc- 
of the church, which occupied between four and eeeded Mr. Crufts, and officiated for a year or two. 
five years, services were held in the town hall. lor about fifteen years t he church was without a 
()ct. II. 15, and is. St. Mark'- was dedicated, regular minister, but in April, 1893, Rev. Caleb 
Bishop Fowler preaching tin' dedication sermon. Davis Bradlee, D. D., took charge and built up 
The pastors of the church have been: Rev. E. a flourishing society and congregation. l'nder 
D Win-low; Rev. Mark Trafton, 1874-5; Rev. Mr. Bradlee's leadership this congregation was or- 
W. S. Robinson (supplied), 1S76; Rev. Elijah R. ganized in October, 1896, as the Second Unitarian 
Watson (supplied), 1877-8; Rev. William Mc- Society in Brookline, which continued to hold 
Donald, 1879-1881: Rev. Joshua ( iill. I SSL' ; Rev. services in Sears's Chapel until January, 1902. 
William G. Leonard, 1SS3-4; Rev. Joshua Gill, Mr, Bradlee resigned as the minister of Christ's 
1885-6; Rev. John II. Twombly. 1SS7-1890; Church, or Sears's Chapel. April. 1897, preached 
Rev. William N'ast Brodbeck. 1891-3; Rev. Wil- his farewell sermon April 25th,anddied suddenly 
liam [ngraham Haven, 1S94-7; Rev. A B. Ken- and unexpectedly six days later. May 1. 1897. 
dig, D, D.. 1897-1900. The present pastor, the Since the Second L'nitarian Society ceased to 
Rev. Dillon Bronson, D. D.. began hi- ministry worship in the edifice. Sear-'- Chapel has been 
here January I. 1901. l'nder his pastorate the unused. Sears's Chapel is practically a mortuary 
membership has increased remarkably. Mr. monument to Mr. Sears and his family. In its 
George A. Clough.of Brookline. was t he architect vaults his body and about a score of those of the 
of St. Mark's. The church, which is one of the members of his family have been buried. Mr. 
mosl striking and beautiful in the town, cost. Sears by his will provided for the care of the build- 
including laud, organ and furniture, $160,000. ing and grounds, all repairs, and that the edifice 
It ha- 1 n thus described: be heated in winter whether occupied or unoccu- 

" The nave is 150 in length and 75 feet in width. pied. Then' is a story doubtless true -that 

I he wall,- are of variegated Brighton ledge stone, at the death of a son of Mr. Sears, a provision of 

with trimmings of gray Nova Scotia sandstone. his will was carried into effect which called for t he 

A beautiful tower rises at the northeastern corner shooting of his favorite saddle horse and its burial, 

of the nave. The general effeel is not unlike that fully caparisoned, under the lawn of the church. 

of the Romanesque cathedral churches of Mr. Sears's hope in building this church was that 

Southern France. " In the church are the follow- t he people of the vicinity would be able to unite in 

ing memorial windows: At the north end of the a common form of worship, with which dream in 

nave, to .lames M. Burgess; at the western end of view he prepared a liturgy or book of worship for 

the transept, to Mrs. Rachel Moore; at the the use of the congregation. He evidently be- 

eastem end of the transept, to the Rev. Mark lieved that people would sink their mental differ- 

Trafton. Rev. William McDonald, and Rev. John ences, and unite to form a "Gospel Church", of 

H. Twombly, early pastors of the church. In the which this building would be the home His 

vestibule is a memorial tablet to the memory of book of worship, instead of the thirty-nine articles 

.lame- Rothwell. At present this church is grow- of the Athanasian Creed, contained only sixteen 

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articles which he conceived would lie sufficient fur 
all people in united worship. The attempt failed. 
The Second Unitarian Society in Brookline 
was organized in Sears's Chapel, under the leader- 
ship of Rev. Caleb I). Bradlee, l>. D., in ( >cto- 
ber, 1S96. Nov. 11, 1S97, the Rev. Edward 
David Towle was settled as its first minister, and 
is still in charge. Services continued to be held 
in Sears's Chapel until January, 1902, when the 
society moved to the corner of Beacon and Charles 
streets, having built then- a parish house, in 



Rev. Reginald 11. Howe, l». !».. son of Bishop 
Howe of Central Pennsylvania, became rector. 
In addition to the church building, t hi- parish now 
has a parish house erected in 1879: a rectory and 
cloister, in 1885; and a memorial transepl and 
choir room, in 1893. All these structures were 
largely erected by the members of the Lawrence 
family. One of the features of the church is a 
window in the nave by the celebrated English 
artist. Sir Edward Burne-.Iones. This parish 
attracts many people from Longwood, in Brook- 




residexck of John o. \\i:h;iii \\n<>i>i \\i>- 



which since then services have been held, prepara- 
tory to the erection of a church edifice. 

The Second Episcopal Church in Brookline was 
organized Feb. 19, 1868, and its edifice, the beautiful 
( 'hurch of < lur Saviour, on the corner of Monmouth 
and Carlton streets, was consecrafed in March of 
the same year. The church was built in memory 

of the Hull. Allies l.awi'elice. the celebrated Bus- 
tell merchant, by his sons, Amos A. Lawrence and 
William R. Lawrence. Rev. Elliott D. Tomkins 
was the first rector, and he was succeeded in 1n7."> 
by Rev. Frank L. Norton, D. D. March. 1877, 



line, from the Back Lay. Boston, and from the 
Roxburv Districl aero-- the parkway adjoining. 
A third Episcopal Church, All Saint.-, was or- 
ganized in Brookline, Nov. 1. 1894, and tin' first 
service was held on September 30th. Novem- 
ber 25th, the Rev. Daniel Dulany Addison, D. D., 
was elected rector, and was installed December 
23d, a( a morning service held in tin- Beaconsfield 
Casino. February S, 1895, the parish was incor- 
porated, and since September of the same year 
the chapel on the southwestern corner of Beacon 
Si reet and 1 lean Road has been in use for service. 



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services firsl in Harvard Hall and after- 

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597 Dr. At 
trch until 1903. when he 
the present pastor. B 
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Within the past iw<> 
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Si Paul. Min - 
Scoi - this untry 15 years. 

_ a . Church 

which was the s - a 

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which 
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Street, opposite Em> was built in 

f thai ar. It 

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ris conceived the idea of erecting a new church to 
accommodate this section, in which the people of 
hi- faith were rapidly increasing, with the resull 
thai he liuili the St. Lawrence Church. From 
t lie time u|' ii> dei licat ion, divine sen ices were con- 
ducted by the priests of St. Mary's until the found- 
ing nf the parish the following New Year's Day, 
when Rev. Thomas 1'. McManus was appointed 
rector. At its inception, the new parish included 
but about Till) persons, but now more than l.tiou 
Catholics reside within its boundaries. Connect- 



Schools and Education. 

From the beginning of the settlement, the in- 
habitants nf Muddy River had paid rates and 
sent their children to school in Boston or to the 
nearer schools in Roxbury where tuition fees had 
to be paid. This was inconvenient, and doubtless in 
many cases expensive, and seem- to have been the 
chief reason that prompte I them in L686 to desire 
t anage their own affairs. Iu the Boston Re- 
cords, under date of March 29, 1686, is the following 




inn it )K Hi ni.i >\\, (nil mm. si i;t:t:i 

I < iHM I I'M I HE I 'link ('mi I ALI- 



ed with the church are sodalities and societies for 
the men and women of the congregation, and a 
Sunday School in which more than a thousand 
children are enrolled. The most recenl acquisi- 
tion of the parish, the Sunday School hall, is used 
during the week as a club room by the men of 
the vicinity, and is fitted with all the con- 
veniences usually found in parish clubs. St . Law- 
rence's Church is a picturesque edifice, in the 
< l< it hie style "i architecture, and i- located in one 
of the most beautiful regions in Brookline. 



"A motion of the inhabitants of Muddy River 
fur a writing school fur their children was read at 
a public meeting of the inhabit ant of this town, the 
Sth of March, and that their town rates may be 
improved to that use and the selectmen appointed 
tu choose a place for the erecting of a house: 

"In answer tu said motion, it was voted that 
the selectmen take this matter into consideration 
and inquire into the reason thereof and represent 
it tu tin' next general town meeting what is neces- 
sary tu be dune therein. " 



BR( >( )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

It was in accordance with this petition that the chief matter which caused the bickering between 

Provincial Council in December of the same year the village and the mother town, and led to the 

gave them the right to practically govern them- final separation, 

selves, and among other things, to build a school- At the first town meeting after the incorporat ion 

house and maintain a schoolmaster. At a fully of the town, held March 4. 1706, n was voted to 

attended meeting of the inhabitants of Muddy levy a tax of twelve pounds upon the inhabitants 

River, held .Ian. 19, 1687, six weeks after the Coun- fur repairing the sehoolhouse and I'm- the support 

cil had empowered them to govern themselves, of the school for the current year. In 1707, tlie 

they voted to accepl the grant, to assess scl I tax for these same purposes was twenty 

themselves twelve pounds per annum, to be pounds. The records arc silent as to the first 
raised in the usual manner of collecting rates or cost and the location of this original (own school- 
taxes, and that the remainder of the money house. 

needed to pay the salary of the schoolmaster be Instead of trying to support a school and main- 
obtained by a charge to "be laid equally upon lain a sehoolhouse, the town s e years later 

the scholars' heads, save any persons that are changed its policy and only assisted in defraying 

poor to be abated in part or in whole." At a the cost of the schooling of the children, allowing 

meeting of the inhabitants of the village on May private persons to take t he initiative in providing 

28, 1697, it was voted to lure Mi'. John Sear] to the school buildings and the teachers. This is 

teach scl 1 from the firsl Monday in May. evident by a vote passed March !>, 1711. as fol- 

1697, until the last day of February follow- lows: 

ing. This was, to judge by the dates, ten " Voted, That there be liberty granted to erect 

years after the vote was passed providing for two sehoolhouses at their own charge that im- 

the method of raising the money to pay a school- prove them. Also that they maintain a good 

master, but it was provided that the same method school dame half of the year at each house. 

was to be used at this time as was formerly voted. That l he town allow t he charge for a master one 

Ai this same meeting the selectmen were di- quarter at one sehoolhouse and the other quar- 

rected to levy a ' ' rate upon the inhabitants to de- ter a( the other, to teach, to write and cypher." 

Ira\ the charges of repairing the sehoolhouse In accordance with this plan, at the town meet- 

and pound." It would appear by this vote thai ing May II, 17ll.it was 

a sehoolhouse had been built in accordance with "Agreed with Win. Story to keep school .'■! 
the original grant. On March."), 17i>~>. a tax of months, he beginning January 7th, 1711-1'-'. Al- 
ton \ shillings was voted by the inhabitants at the lowing £5.0.0 for his services. Agreed with John 
village meeting, to be assessed for the repair of the Winchester, Jun'r for his man Ivl. Ruggles, to 
sehoolhouse, and at the same meet ing a duplicate keep school at t lie New Sehoolhouse 2 months, he 
of the vote of Jan. 19, 16S7, in regard to the assess- beginning .Ian nary 2:!. Wednesday, 1711-12. Al- 
ment for the support of the school, was passed. It lowing for his services, £4.0.0." 
would thus appear that the village possessed a This method of partial support of the schools 
sehoolhouse erected at its own expense, and a was evidently followed for a considerable period. 
schoolmaster supported by the people themselves. In the years immediately following the incorpo- 
( tn March 11, 1700, the town meeting of Boston, ration of the town larger sums were appropriated 
in denying the petition of the inhabitants of Hud- for the support of the schools than what were 
dy River to be a separate village, had promised voted afterward. Thus in 17U7, twenty pounds 
to provide a schoolmaster for them and pay him were appropriated, but in 17b! and 1 71 I only ten 
out of the town treasury. Whether this was pounds were appropriated each year, and in 1714 il 
done or not, does not appear from the records; was voted " that i he sums of money raised for the 
but at any rate the people of Muddy River five keeping of schools at the three parts of the town be 
years later took the matter into their own hands. distributed .and paid to the school which each man 
and provided tor the payment of their own school- -hall improve." In other words, to use the lan- 
master in a sehoolhouse which they already guage with which we tire familiar today, the 
owned. More than any other one thing this schools in Brookline at thai lime were "subsi- 
difnculty in regard to the school was e\ idently the dized." 

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By a vote of the town meeting, May S, 1 71 (>. the 
town was divided into three school districts or 
precincts, as follows: 

"From a place known liv the name oi Caleb 
Gardner's walnut tree at the north end oi the 
town, from said tree to Cambridge line. The 
centre or middle pari of ilic town from -aid wal- 
nut tree to Xewton line, including Joseph Adams, 
Joseph Goddard and Henry Winchester. The 
south end of the town taking in Samuel N'ewel and 
all t he other families at t he sunt h end. 



sides of the way, and to the line to run up the new 
lane straighl over to Roxbury line. 

"The southerly precinct extend so far north as 
to take in Mr. Joseph Goddard's land 

and so inns between Mr. \Y Iward's and Mr. 

Child's land taking in Sam'll Newell's land, and 
from thence straighl to Troublesome Swamp 
Bridge, from thence straight to Xewton line. 

■ -'I he middle part of the town I hat is not cut 
off l>v anv precinct, to be a precind l>\ them- 
selves. 




ST. LAI It 1A( i: CATHOLIC CHURCH, la 'VLSI' '\ si 1:1 I I 



December 29, 171S, the selectmen agr 1 with At this meeting it was also voted that the 

Amariah Winchester to pay him seven pounds and people in each precinct should be taxed to support 
four shillings for keeping the Center school, three the schools in their own districts, and that Ed- 
months. The amounts appropriated lor schools ward White and John Winchester should be trus- 
about thisperiod were: for 1718, 20 pounds; 171!), tees for the north precinct. Deacon While and 
IT, pounds; 1720, 15 pounds; 1721, 15 pounds; John Seaver lor the middle precinct, and James 
1722, 25 pounds; 1723, -ill pounds; 1724, 30 Griggs and Joshua Child for the south precinct. 
pounds; 1725, 30 pounds; 17'- > (i. 30 pounds. According to tradition the first schoolhouse 

At the town meeting March 1. 1723, the limits erected by the town of Brookline was built about 
of the school districts were again defined, as 



tollows : 

■'The north precinct exti ml so tar south as to 
take in all the land 11] Watei'town road on both 



171.'! on the triangular plot of ground at the June 
tion of Walnut and Warren streets, and nearly op- 
posite the present First Parish church. As ap- 
pears from the records, however, it is evident that 



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says thai "if this vote was carried out a school- 
house must have stood on or near the present 
High School playground." The other school 
was to "stand half way between Christopher 
flier's and the corner of the lane near Thomas 

\Y [ward's in the land of Thomas White." 

Edward White, Caleb < lardner, and Robert Sharp 
were elected a committee to ered the north 
school; and Abraham Woodward, Thomas Sted- 
man and Isaac Child, to erect the other. 

1 1 1730,1 \vi i schools were in operation supported 
by the town, as on .March 2d it was voted "to 
keep school ten months this year, five months 
with two mistresses, one in each school; and five 
months with a master, ten weeks in each school, " 



May 17.17 15, it was voted to raise one hundred 
and eighty pounds ''fur poor schools and other 
charges." lines this mean that the scl Is sup- 
ported bv the town were for the children of the 

I rer families, and that there were other schools 

not so supported? December 17. 1745, it was 
voted to build a schoolhouse on land given to the 
town by Joseph and Moses White for that purpose 

The new schoolhouse on the land given by the 
Whites was probably erected the following year, 
as on May 10, 1746. certain persons were exempted 
from paying taxes for the cost of the newsehool- 
house. and a rate of fifty pounds was laid on the 
resl of the inhabitants, while the selectmen were 
directed to engage a schoolmaster to teach from 




HARVARD SQl'AKE AM) hSROOKLINE K I: STATION \\|i BRIDGE, lssl). 



and Abraham \Y I ward, Elhanon Winchester 

and William Gleason wen- appointed a commit- 
tee i ' > secure a schoolmaster and schoolmistresses. 
The services of a schoolmaster and t wo schoolmis- 
tresses were thus equally divided between the 
schools, ami forty pounds were voted 1" defray 
school expenses The locations of the school- 
houses were evidently not satisfactory, a- for 
aboul half a century from this time motions were 
i i asionally introduced in the town meeting in re- 
gard to finding "the most convenient spot to erect 
a ~chiH.lhi.u-e for the benefit of the whole town," 
as to how n, any schools t here should be, and w here 
additional schoolhouses could best be place. I 



S'ovember to March. It would seem thai the 

method of assessing scl 1 rates practically 

amounted to making a man pay in proportion to 
the number of children he had, as \vi iuld appear by 
the following, passed March 2, 1747: 

' ' Voted. Thai Mr. .lame- Shed and his son have 
liberty to -end their children to Brookline school. 
they finding their proportion of wood and paying 
their proportion for their polls according ■■-■■ 
led ii. en apportion upon other children." 

[•Tom 1717 until 1700 the town records have 

little menu. .ii of the scl Is. but on March 3.1700, 

ii was voted to assist the inhabitants in the south 
part of the town i" ered a school, and to exempt 



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iIiciii from the town school tax as long as they 
would maintain this school. Ma\ IS, 17(il,i1 was 
voted to repair the upper and lower schoolhouses. 
May '■'. L762, the town meeting voted to appro- 
priate the interest of a legacy left toil by Mr.Ed- 
ward Devotion, to the use of the Middle School- 
house. At thai time the legacy amounted to 7'W 
pounds and I shillings. The present Kdward De- 
votion School, 'Mi Harvard Street, which stands on 
the "M Devotion farm, commemorates the mem- 
ory of this i ill I benefactor of the Brookline schools. 
A controversy arose in 1707 as to whether the 
grammar school should be open in the summer 



next vear, however, the town voted to assist the 
Sunt 1 1 District to 1 mild a school house " to be of the 
same bigness as the Woman's School House thai 
i- in i he middle dist rid . " At t he meel oil: of 
March I. 1771. the selectmen were instructed to 

inspect the old scl Ihouse and report as to 

whether it was besl to repair it or pull it down and 
erect :i new one in another place. In June, 1771. 
the town voted to assist the Middle District "ly- 
ing .in Sherbun Rode," to build a schoolhouse. 
The controversy as to the opening oi the grammar 
school in summer, seems to have been :i favorite 
bone of contention, as it came up repeatedly. 




JOHN I) IM \ M.I. ■ \I.W ■ .-< '!!< " 'I I'l.'l i I. .- I l.'l I I 



time. At t he M;i \ meel mil: i he vote u as nol 1 1 1 
• > j x ■ 1 1 the school, but al the July meeting it was 
voted tn keep it open in summer. Al the same 
meeting it was decided to remove "the upper 
woman's school to the South District," to provide 
;i room for it, at the charge of the town, and to 
continue its sessions, or as phrased in the record,' ' to 



another meeting in 17H7 it was voted to keep the 
Middle School open for six months, and lo remove 
the upper school to the South District, but the 
town refused to build a new schoolhouse. The 



During the war of the Revolution the reference? 

in scl I- are meagre In 1777. the selectmen 

houghl .'i lot of land front Joseph Smith of Rox 
bun mi the "count ry road leading to Newton," 

for the erection ol a scl Ihouse. March 2, I77S, 

the (own voted to purchase an iron stove for the 
grammar schoolhouse, in order t" lessen the ex- 



keep said Woman's School in for the presenl \t pen.se for fuel. 



Ma\ 24, 1 7S0, t he tow n meet ing voted nol to 
hold sessions of the grammar school during the 
summer, and "thai a woman's school be kepi 
three months, one month in the schoolhouse al the 



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■ ml of the town, one month in the middle of 

the >' 'V. n, and one month in the schoolhouse at the 

south part of the town." The strenuous times 

undoubtedly interfered, as thus appi a t ■ 

v. h li t he ilurai i' in i >f t he schi 

The leading scl 1, probably the one known as 

the grammar school, was evidently a popular in- 
stitution, as w null 1 appear l>\ the following record 
of tlir tow ti meeting of Jan. S, 17S1 : 

"Whereas upward of nit \ children belonging to 

tin- tow n daily attend at scl 1. and a nun 

thers from the adjaeenl tow n have also been ad- 
mitted there this season as usual foi si vera! years 
past , v. hereby the whole number <> < is be- 

come so great that it cannot be expected the 
schoolmaster can teach them all with any pros- 
pect of advantage to the scholars t herefore voted 
that Mr. Isaac Reed, the presenl schooln aster, be 
directed not to permit the children from an\ adja- 
eenl ti iw ti to con e i > • -i-l.i 'i il v, hile the number of 
scholars belonging to this town continues so large 
as to retpiire all his attention to their instruction. " 

March (i, 17N3. the town meeting directed the 

en to engage a schoolmaster 1. 1 teach hi the 

schoolhouse in tin 1 middle of tin- town from that 

the first day of N pinl ier, and at a 

rig in Sept ember it was voted to keep two 

schools during the ensuing winter for fourmonths 

each. The following vote, passed at the annual 

town meeting March S, 1 7^ 4 . srives a clear idea of 

ethod which had 1 n evolved in running 

the scl Is : 

'• Vote !, thai schools be kepi by suitable 

ters, where they ma \ besl accot late each part 

of the town, for the term of three months inthe 
winter ti nd t hat a suitable master be en- 

i;a ;ed to i ei [) school the other nine months in the 
vear in the schoolhouse in the middle of the town, 
and that two women schools lie kept where they 
will best accommodate each part of the town for the 
- of three months in the summer season." 

In 17Nn, a woman's school was directed to be 
kept at the upper end of the town within one hun- 
dred rods of Daniel White"- house, for three 
months in the summer, and in I7N7 tin seL - 
were instructed to engage a schoolmistress to keep 
school in the schoolhouse in the middle of the 
town for three months in the summer. 

I he schoolhouse in the middle of the town was 

tre of the school system. It was probably 

junction of Walnut and W arren 



streets Here the long term of the school from 
April To November was always held, and tl i 
troversy as to the keeping of the grammar school 
the summer undoubtedly related to this 

school. The old w len structure on tin- site 

wa- replaced liv a brick schoolhouse in 1793. and 
a i lea -i pa i' i of the expense of its erection was paid 
: a gift from William Hyslop, blsq., to whom the 
town tendered its thanks January I. of thai year, 
"for In- generous donation for the purpose of 
building a schoolhouse in said town for the en- 
couragcmenl and promotion of learning among 
ith mi' the rising-generation."' Whilst this 
new house was in process of construction the 
schoolmaster was directed to "divide In- time 
co, nail v in the schoolhouse al the upper end of the 
tew ti and the schoolhouse in t he lower end of the 
town, nfter the first day of April next, until tin- 
sel Ihouse in the middle of the town is completed 

and fit te keep -el 1 in." ['he I5rick School- 
house wa- a square, hip-roofed building, fr 
eastward: it had no porch and was without blinds 
to tin- win. lew-, -e that n was a bare looking 
st ruel ure. 

The arranged cut of the school terms as oul 
by the records, March v I7.S-J, continued to be 

iwed in the new school. Here sessions were 
held frot \pril to November, while the winter 
schools were kept m the immediate neighborhoods 

• convenient for the children to get to during 
tin- severe weather. One of these schools was 
kept in the house on School Street already men- 
tioned; another wa- on Heath Street, near its 
junction with Warred Street. In addition, there 
were "Women's School-." which were kept in the 
summer, and probably utilized the same school 
tigs, although separate buildings were in 
some in-tai ice- erect et I specially for t heir use \ ' 
example of one of these remote small school] 

II in existence, although probably modernized. 
in the neighborhood of the high service pumping 
station, near the junction of Newton and Grove 
streets, in the western part of the town. This 
building was known as the Putterham schoolhouse. 
and is still in use. but is now called the Newton 
Street School; it was built in 1768 and enlarged 
in 1S39 

From the tii if its erection until the const ruc- 
tion of the Brick Schoolhouse, the town meetings 
were usually held in the Meeting House, that 
building being town property but probably some 



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of the special meetings were at times held in the 
old Middle Schoolhouse. The Brick Schoolhouse, 
however, became tin' place fur the assembling of 
the town meeting, and continued t<> be so used 
until Pierce Hall was erected and dedicated as a 
school, Jan. 1, 1S25. The upper story of Fierce 
Hall was the town hall, which was also used fur 
singing classes, lectures, public meetings, and 
sometimes used for religious services by organiza- 
tions that had no church building. Pierce Hall 
i^ mi the next hit tu the Firsl Parish Church, and 
was named in honor of Dr. Pierce. At the servi- 



scl 1 committee reported to the town meeting, 

Xov. 13, 1S43, that it had been fitted up fur this 
purpose at an expense of $281.67. The school 
committee at this time consisted of Dr. Pierce, 
Rev. William H.Shailer of the Baptist Church, and 
Samuel Philbrick, Esq., who were all enthusiasts 
mi the subject of public education. The first 
principal of the high school was Benjamin H. 
Rhoades, who began teaching here May, 18-13. He 
was succeeded by Hezekia Shailer, bri it her of Re\ 
William 11. Shinier, who served from May 1, 1846, 
tn April _'ii, 1852. Since then the high school 







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ces held by the town, Feb. 22. 1800, tn show re- 
spect for the memory of Washington, who had 
just died, the militia assembled at the Brick 
Schoolhouse and walked in procession to the 
existing church, which stood in the present yard 
of the parsonage, where Dr. Pierce conducted the 
services and delivered an address, three hundred 
copies of which were afterwards printed at the 
expense of the town. 

By a vote of the town. Aug. 17. 1843, the town 
hall was set apart fur a high school; and the 



principal- have I n: George Moore, May. 1 s •">_'. 

to July. 1852; William P. Atkinson, Sept.. 1852, 
in 1 -I, 28, 1853; Rev. John X. Bellows. Feb. 28, 
1853, tu May, 1853; Isaac Coffin, April 26, 1853, 
tu April. 1S51; .1. Emory Hoar. April Hi. 1854, to 
July, ISSS; Frederic T. Farnsworth, Sept. 1888, 
tu .bine 2(1. 1891; Daniel S. Sanford, Sept. 7 
1891, to June 1905; George P. Hitchcock, from 
September, 1905, to the present time. 

April 7. 1856, it was voted to erect a high school 
on land belonging tn the town mi School and 



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Prospecl streets, -the location of the first school- 
house in the town or its immediate vicinity. The 
building was completed and read} for use early in 
1857. and its entire cosl was about $14,000. It 

continued in use as a high sel I until the present 

high school was finished in 1S95 

No comparison will better illustrate the differ- 
ences between the conditions in the past and the 
present than the cost of the school building; the 
present high school, which stands at the corner of 
Tappan Street and Gorham Avenue, facing the 
common, cost with its furnishings $225,000, as 
against $14,000 for the former high school forty 
years before. Even at that the present seln.nl is 



who was given full control of all the sel Is. He 

served until Aug. 21, 1900, and was succeeded) 
Sept. 1, 1900, by the present superintendent. 
George 1. Aldrich. School committee 1906: F. 
W. Hobbs, chairman; Geo. I. Aldrich, secretary; 
Michael Driscoll, .Mrs. Ruth C. Paine. Dr. E. W. 
Bowker, Rev. \V. 11 Lyon, YV. T. Sedgewick, Dr. 
Walter Channing, Mrs. Edith C. Baker, Thos. B. 
1 it zpatrick. 

A comparison bet ween the condition and cost of 
maintenance of the schools in 1S34, and seventy- 
two years later, in 190G, presents some striking 
differences : 

March _'■">. 1834, a committee appointed to 







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corky iiii. i. 1 1 * imks'i had. 






a plain, but iui])osing building, the chief cosl hav- 
ing been put into the interior fittings and applian- 
ces. 

It is seated in a plot of ground of 19,750 square 
feet, which was laid out by Olmsted, Olmsted .V 
Eliot, and now forms with its surroundings, a 
harmonious combination in a scenic sense, char- 
acteristic of the Brookline of the present. 

The first person to hold the office of superinten- 
dent 1 1 1 selii H ils was William T. Reid, who was ap 
pointed April 22, 1872. and served until 1875 In 
1879, 1). H, Daniels was appointed superintendent 
of the primary and grammar schools, the high 
school in it being under his direction. He resigned 
in 1890, and was succeeded bv Samuel T. 1 lut ton, 



examine into the condition of I he schools made the 
follow ing report : 

"The school in the South District, under the care 
of Mr. Converse, lias 13 scholars, 17 on the list 
School in the Middle District, under care of Moses 
Burbank, 35 were present, 50 mi the list. First 
North District, under the care of Leonard Spauld- 
ing, 11 were present, ti.'! mi the list. Also one 
school under the care of Hannah Pern and Lucy 
Davis, -19 were present, 53 mi the list. Whole 
number i on li-t I 183. 

"Your committee recommend I" the town to 
dispense with a male and employ a female teacher 
in the Smith District— forty-eight week- at $2.50 

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to support two schools in the First North District 
throughout the year, one female teacher 48 weeks 
at 82.50 per week, $120; also one other female 
teacher 32 weeks at $2.50 per week $80, the 
schocil to commence the first of April, keep to the 
first of December. Grant to the Second North 
District $100 a year during the town's pleasure. 
That the $46 saved to the town by the alteration 
in the Smith District should go to pay a female 
teacher in the hirst North District the ensuing 
winter.' ' 

.\i>\\ for what was dime in 1906, and the value 
of 1 he school property in t lie d >w n 



tion, are as follows: High School, hs'.iti. < rorham 
Avenue; New Manual Training, 1902, Tappan 
Street; .1. Elliot Cabot, 18S8, Marion Street; Ed- 
ward Devotion Primary, 1892, Grammar, 1899, 
both on Harvard street; Heath. 1904, Reservoir 
Lane; Lawrence, 1874, enlarged in 1885 and 1891, 
Francis street; William 1L Lincoln, 18S8, Simp. 
L889, Annex. 1894, Primary, 1898, all four on 
Boylston street ; Longwood, 1864, enlarged 1898, 
St. Mary's St reel ; Newton Street, 176S, enlarged 
1839; Parsons, 1883, Walter Avenue; Pierce 
Grammar, 1900, School Street: Pierce Priman 
IS55, enlarged 1905, Prospect Street; John I). 




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Appropriation for maintaining the public schools 
of Brookline, 1906, $207,558.00 

Value of school buildings and 

-rounds. $1,472,100.00 

Whole number of pupils in day 

schools. 4,024 

A \ erage attendance, 3,547 

Number of teachers, 138 

With one exception all the old school buildings 
have ceased to be used for school purposes, or have 
been pulled down in recent year- and replaced by 
modern structures. The names of the present 
schools, the date of their erection, and their loca- 



Runkle, 1897, enlarged 1901, Druce Street; Se 
wall. 1892, Cypress Street; Robert C. Winthrop, 
1887, Brookline Avenue. All these structures are 

of brick except the Lonuw 1. Xeutoii Street and 

Parsons Schools, and a portion of the Lawrence, 
and I hey are nearly all beautiful structures in an 
architectural sense, in harmony with their sur- 
roundings. 

A el ass i i 'a 1 school was started in Brookline about 
the year 1822 by a number of gentlemen, in- 
cluding Richard Sullivan. General Dearborn, 
Ebenezer Francis, Lewis Tappan, Rev. John 
Pierce, Oliver Whyte, Elijah Corey, Timothy Co- 



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rev, and others, and they erected a fine school 
building mi the northern side of Boylston Slrccl, 
east of Cypress Street. Subsequently an addition 
was limit for I lie accommodation of t he boarding 
students. Mr. Gideon Thayer, founder of the 
Chauncy Hall School, Boston, bought the place, 
and conducted it as a branch school, where deli- 
cate boys cnul 1 1 have better air. The nexl owner 
was George B. Emerson. LI,. 1).. eminent as a 
teacher and naturalist: but the classical school 
ceased to exist here, was transferred to various 
private houses with more or less success, and was 
finally abandoned. During Mr, Emerson's owner- 
ship, William Ware leased the house and here 
wrote m the north parlor, his historical romance, 
"Zenobia, or the Fall of Palmyra." Dr. A. S 
Shurtlcff became the owner about 1838. 

Brookline was included in the sweep of the ly- 
ceum tin i\ enieiit which swe])t over New England 
during the second quarter of the nineteenth cen- 
turv. and continued a potent influence down to 
,iiiei I - 7o A series of Lyceum lectures were 
started in the town hall in 1832, by Mr, I aai 
Thaver. and the Brookline Lyceum Society 
was organized, which for several winters con- 
ducted led ures and at t racted as t he old 
reports sav the " 'ht< " ,,f the town. Through 
the efforts of Mr. Thayer, Dr. S. A. Shurtleff 
:uiil others, a corporation known a- t he " Lyceum 
el' tin- Town hi Brookline," was incorporated in 
1S41, and then erected Lyceum Hall, which Mill 
stands mi Washington St reel . west oi the site of 
the Bunch Bowl Tavern, anil opposite the end 
iif Walnut Street. Tin- institution did much for 
the education of the townspeople, and aided ma- 
terially in broadening their outlook on life. The 
leading orators and lecturers of the time appeared 
on i1s platform, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, 
Rufus Choate, Dr. Webster Hillard, Christopher 
Duncan, Charles Emerson, and many others. 

Brookline Public Library. 

A library was started in Brookline in 1S25, 
through the efforts of Rev. John Pierce. This was 
the firsl library in the town of a public nature. 
An association was formed, of which Dr. Pierce 
was president : Deacon Otis Wit hingt on, secretary. 
Deacon John Robinson, treasurer; and the town 
clerk, < Miver Whyte, librarian. Rules were adop- 
ted Dec. 27, LS25, and the 1 ks were kept at the 



house of the librarian, which was on the south- 
eastern corner of Walnut and High streets, or 
between Walnut Street ami Village Lane. Later 
the library was located m the shoe shop of John 
Leeds ,m Washington Street, east of the present 
Public Library. For t he first and second years an 
annual subscription of live dollars was charged. 
but i lie rate fin- subsequent years was only two 
dollars. 

An institution of the nature of a Mechanics' 
Institute, similar to those organi ?ed in many of the 
New England towns at tins period, was started 
in Brookline in I ' ,46 by a number of young men. 
among whom were Isaac R. Atwood, J. D. Long, 
Elisha Hall, Jr., Edward Hall, Eben Haskell. 
Isaac Farrington, Jr., Abraham C. Small, IS. F. 
Baker and Oliver Cousens. They maintained a 
room w Inch was kept open in the evenings, winter 
and summer, and here they accumulated a library 
formed by the contribution of members. Occa- 
sionally the} held debates and gave readings ami 
led me- in i lii- room or a larger one. 

This institution was the forerunner of the move- 
ment which resulted m the formation ol the Pub- 
lic Library. One of iis members, Elisha Hall, is 
-a id tu ha ve suggested I o Horace Mann the draft- 
ing uf i he Massachusetts law of 185 1 . winch auth- 
orized cities and towns In appropriate money to 
equip and inaint am public libraries, 

Brookline was one of t he first towns to establish 
a library under the provisions "I the statute of 
of 1S51. Votes were passed at the town meeting, 
March 30, 1No7, appropriating $934 fur the 
"foundation ami commencement " "t the library, 
and $233 for its "maintenance ami increase.'' 
The libra r\ was opened to the public Dec. 2. 1S57, 
with 900 volumes mi its shelves, in a room on the 

firsl il -uf the town hall, then mi Washington 

Si reel mi the site of the present town hall. The 
first librarian was J. Emory Hoar, then principal 

of the high scl 1, who was chosen in t he position 

N'iiv . II, |N.">7, and continued to be librarian until 
Sept. 19, IS71. He was succeeded by Mi-- Mary 
A. Bean, who held I he position until her death. 
Sept. 1. 1893. Charles K. Bolton of the Harvard 
College] ilirarv, was elected librarian November 2 1 , 
1893, ami continued to administer t he library un- 
til he resigned in February, 1898, to become libra- 

ri; f the Boston Athenaeum. He was succeeded 

by HillerC. Wellman, win, resigned in Mac 1902, 
since which time Mi-- Louisa M. Hooper has been 



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librarian. Miss Hoorjer had been first assistant 
tor some i ime. 

The main part of the present library building on 
Washington Street was completed and opened to 
public use in IS69, but several addition have since 
been made, a summary of which and of the work 
of the library, is given in the trustees' report fort he 
year ending Jan, ">!. 1905, as follows: 

''The population of the town in 1870 was 6,650, 
and was in t increasing rapidly. The library then 



My 26,000. The library contains 65,000 volumes, 
and the circulation at the desk for home use is 
more than 100,000 a year. ' ' 

The trustees strongly urge the erection of a new 
libra rv, for the reasons t hat the present edifice is 
overcrowded and that additions to it will not se- 
cure satisfactory results. Probablj the near fu- 
ture will see a fitting library building in the town, 
which will be large enough to meet the increasing 
need-, and sufficiently dignified in architecture 




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contained about 12,000 volumes The circulation 
in 1870 was about 25,000 volumes. Owing to the 
subsequent growth the northern extension was 
built in 1SSS. In 1S90 the library ci ntained 35,- 
000 volumes; the circulation was 50,000; the 
population to be served was 12.103. In IS92 
< ia t'd tier Hall, the reading room of the library, was 
constructed, but added little room for book 
shelves and none for administration. At the 
present time the population of Brookline is proba- 



t o compare with the i own hall and the general ap- 
| lea ranee of I he town. 

Donations of money have at various times been 
made to the library. John L. Gardner gave 
$10,000 in 1871. and a bequest of $5,000 was re- 
ceived front Martin L Hall the same. year. These 
are the two principal funds, but gifts have also 
been received from John S. Wright, J. M. Howe. 
Mrs. Samuel Philbric. Abijah W. Goddard, Mrs. 
I). W. Russell, C. D. Bradlee. 



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The library now ma d delivery 

stations at Coo ' irner and at upper Boyl- 

st on Street 

1904. From the first nai on 15.45-) 

were issued during the year, ami from thi 
3.73 l The I ■ ital number of bi i iks -- i 
e use in 1904 was 146.475. includi - 
- lie t\\<> delivery stations. 

; of Pub] 

ina n : I\ Si UTS, '" [)ai iel 1 'u- 

.M. C'od- 
■ ,■■-.( , ■ tigs Leslie < 
H. I. ymi. Frederick 1.. Gay. Rufus G. 1 I 

I, Tappan K. Fram -. Mi 
- 

i ran is i ipen i m <-\ en -■ 
[I A. M. tn '.i 1'. M 

7 and during July 

and August , when it is 
H 1' M 1 

2 to 9 1'. M. 

Municipal and Social Convenience. 

i 

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- 

- 



1 1 tie as 
at 81 .095.000 for 

- i h i.i ii ii i f, r 1 1 i ewi - ; 
■-■" ' ' 

own in IS53, 

Gas Light I - ted its 

At a spi [ eld Dec. '26 

, ,sit ii in 

1 

• ii con- 

rty. lint i he town subsequent- 

bei 

_ until in 

1904 R 1059 -i reet lights, ol 

260 \\i 633 iasli<i nd 166 

; S54 
214.49 t S500 in 1S53 

cr. the Hi (!; I - < 

conl inues t ii supply t he 

ics, Brook- 

^ ork and 

e l'u I I a\rrn 

; t-iii er- 

2 
I : i \ . '. 

: 

veekly. 
my a Mr S 
i Punch B 
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continu 7 sc. Sunn 

r. Mr. Sui \\ - _ 

Bruokline. 
He 
led by B. \Y, Hobart. who coi I 

branch 

period 

1 then 

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lirough 

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ducted nil the tracks in its center, and it has 
sometimes been claimed that this was the first 
successful elect I'ii- street railway in the world. 
Ho\ve\ it t hat mav l>c, I >|i i< ikline is in >w -er\ ed by 
many lines of the street railways of the Boston 
Metropolitan District, and the streel railway ta\ 
paid to the town in l!)()5 was $29,756.(51. 

While Brookline has at present no large park 
laid out, the splendid Kiverdale Parkway, the old 



Avenue, across the street from the parkway, 
which i- used for ball playing, while it is also pro- 
vided with swings and gymnastic apparatus, the 
Cypress .Street playground, on which fronts the 
High School, the Public Path, and the Manual 
Training School, is about equal in area to the 
Brookline Avenue, and is used for all sorts of 
children's play; the Longwood Avenue playground, 
winch i- largely utilized for ball playing; the 




si m \i;y of i in: \ssi mptiox cathi ilic cumcH, ii \i;\ \i:ii >i i:i i i 



channel and valley of the Muchly River, extending 
for two miles along the southeastern border of the 
town, a thousand feel in width, admirably fills 
the place of such a park. This is well supple- 
mented by numerous playgrounds throughout the 
town, sn located as to provide fur the centres of 
densest population. The principal playgrounds 
are located as follows: A large held on Brookline 



Longwood Mall; the Washington Street play- 
ground; the Stedman Streel playground in the 
neighborhood of the Devotion Schools; the Bea- 
con Street playground, and others. The town 
owns an extensive area on Hammond and Newton 
Streets, which can be and may be at some future 
i nee converted into a public park. 

In addition there are about a score of other 



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■ - - I parks 
and "ri - many of whiel are 

playg 
The - 

5 is m ::ii a million dollars 

lude 1; ei lale Parkway. The Cypress 
I] ill \ . ■ ; .■ _ 

purchased in 1S71. 

Miss Woi ids pul ik in 1S74, 

- 

sugges 

-- _ 
- 

to tin- • - public 

\ ' igl _ - ire her 

- Lggi s| 

t sin 

st thai 
shed I 
; 
" A brea t hi ng .- a 

_ 
2 - iburb lik< • s town, thus -■ 
would tion for all c< 

Harvard 
tie * * * * Wl 
s 

- 
■ J tn tin 
f Xew Yi e north 

lost on. with grass, s I drink- 

city would 
I ■ 

Cemeteries. 

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7 

in Mr. 

i 

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Plac< i ntly it 

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tery, t as iurial of 

the di • en Si mewhat of a pub- 

ed by the following 'Tion 
hi" tin 3 _'. 1713: 

rhat Mr. - Sewall. Jr., and Mr. 

1 'eter Bi .; pall or bui ; 

cloth to com s cost, anil 

i with 

• iwn tn 

rear 

17 - - lid cloth. ' ' 

'iii. 1717 

I lark. " near the 

- ' 

eh another 

- i was added in 1840. 

H hies of the village. 

By a vote of tli' I 
'. 1S74, • 
[in 
on Gr ?t cornet 

17. 1^7 I 
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A'alnut Hills I - The 

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town meetings, it was finally voted Oct. 24, 1895, 
to eonstrucl a Public Bath at a cost of $25,000. 
Jan. 30, 1896, the appropriation was increased to 
$40,000, not, however, to include the furn Nihil; "i' 
the land on the southern side of Tappan Street. 
The building was finished in December of the 
same year. It is a beautiful structure architectu- 
rally. The principal tank is eighty feet in length 
l>v twenty-six feet wide, lined with white-glazed 
brick, and has a sloping bottom, making it deeper 
at one end t ban at the other; tins makes a superb 
swimming pool, the dressing rooms being around 
the edge of the tank and separated from it by a 
footway four or five feet wide, '['here is also a 



Brookline Town Government. 

Probably the first town meetings were held in 
some of the original schoolhouses. The early 
records state that many of the meetings were held 
in the meeting house, which was erected in 171 t, 
and they probably continued to be held within its 

walls until tl rection of the Brick Schoolhouse 

in 1793. Tins building was then the meeting 
place urn il the erection of Pierce Hall, in 1825, on 
the lot adjoining the First Parish Church, when 
the upper story of the new building became the 
town hall, the first apartment to be specifically 
known by that name and whose priman use was 




I 1 1 >( ;i : n irxeh 



smaller tank, similarly constructed, twenty-two for the town meetings. In 1845 a town hall was 

feel by ten in dimensions, which is mainly used to erected on Washington Street, on the site now 

give swimming lessons. In additions there are a occupied by the present town building, and was 



number of tub baths and rain baths. The dress- 
ing rooms, of which there are about fifty, have 
both fronl and rear entrances. A gallery over- 
looks the main tank, to which visitors are ad- 
mitted. Certain days and hours are set apart 
respectively for the sexes to use the tanks and 
baths, and the building in all its conveniences is 
thoroughly appreciated and well patronized by 
the town people, li was dedicated January 1, 
1897. 



dedicated Oct. 14, with appropriate exercises, 
[)r. Pierce delivering an historical address, which 
was afterwards printed in book form at the ex- 
pense of the town. This edifice was a frame build- 
ing, which stood with its Liable to the street, had 
projecting pilasters in front, a basement story con- 
taining three rooms, a hall and committee room 
in t he second story, and it - dimensions were 70 by 
.">.x feet. The hall was 53 feet in length, 36 in 
width. 17 feet in height, with a gallen at one end 



Police Department. 



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16 feet in depth. The selectmen were "authorized wholly a community affair today, where at one 
to open the town hall for all purposes of public time they were partly public and partly private in 
good, on application of three legal voters, pro- their support and management; the water sys- 
vided all expenses of opening the same be paid by tern and the sewers are wholly under public 
those who apply except when such expenses can management, while the primitive methods which 
he legally paid by the town." The Public they supplanted were largely private; the care 
Library was first opened in one of the rooms of of parks, tree planting, public baths, are all largely 
this building, and two rooms were also subse- new developments. In fact, the only direction 
quently fitted up for t he use () f t lie schools. To in which community act ion has ceased is in the do- 
make way for the erecti f the present town main of religion, where the voluntary organization 

building, the old town hall was removed to Pros- has supplanted the town church. 

peel Slice! ;iiul converted into a police station. Some of the details of the cle\ elopinent of tile 

The present town hall was built in 1872, and administration of the town are of interest. The 

dedicated with appropriate exercises February 22, select men are t he governing body of t lie tow ii, hut 

1873. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop delivered an their powers are only ministerial, in that they can 

oration, which was afterward printed by the town. only carry out t he decisions of the low n meetings. 

The cost of tin- building, including land, has been The same is in fact I rue of t he ot her boards, to 

about $260,000. whom special duties are entrusted. 

The administration of the town of Brookline 
has iii some respects changed very little. At the 

first town meeting five selectmen wore elected, The police department dates from 1857, when a 

and ai the last annual meeting the same number special police ami night watch was appointed un- 

was elected. There have been times when only der the control of Mr. Augustus Allen. For a few 

three were elected, but the usual number has years following, patrolmen wore only on duty 

always been live. The first town meeting, March Saturday nights and Sundays, but in 1870 about 

4,1705-6, also elected a town clerk, three assessors, eight men were employed. June 23, 1870, it was 

two tything men. three surveyors of highways, voted "that the sum of $3,000 be appropriated to 

two fence viewers, two overseers of the common finish and furnish a police station in the new hose 

land-, two field drivers, and a constable. The house." John I'. Sanborn, who was elected a 

village of Muddy River had elected three select- truant officer in 1860, and a constable in 1864, was 

men. a town clerk, surveyors of highways, fence for years the only regular police officer, but he had 

viewers, tythingmen and constables, from the power to call on the other constables when he 

vear 16S7, presumably, and certainly from 1697 to needed assistance. Mr. Sanborn was appointed 

1705. The present elected officers are: Five chief of police in 1870, and in ls74 made his first 

selectmen, who also constitute a board of health: report to the selectmen. He was succeeded by 

seven overseer- of i he poor; a treasurer, who is Alon/.o Bowman in lN"<i. who served until his 

also the collector of taxes; a town clerk; a school death, Oct. 18, 1899. The present chief, Alonzo 

coinmitii f nine persons; twelve trustees of the VV. Corey, was appointed Dec. It. 1899, and had 

Public Library; six trustees of Walnut Hills begun his service with the department as patrol- 
Cemetery; three members of the water board; man Oct. I. 1879. In 1872, the old town hall was 
three park commissioners; a committee ol three moved to Prospect Street, and the following 
for planting trees; three auditors; two fence spring was converted into a police station, a court 
viewers; five constables; two held drivers: and a room for the trial justice, and rooms for an evening 
pound keeper. Thus, for more I han two cent lines school. The present Police Stat ion. on t he corner 
this community has been managing its affairs in a of Washington and Prospect streets, is a substan- 

public way to a much greater extent than in lialst > building erected in 1899, and was ready 

theory communities are supposed to interfere in for occupancy November, 1900, at a cost of about 

the hie of the people. The striking fact about the $45, 1 II II I. 

whole mailer, too, is thai community control The police force al present consists of a chief, a 

instead of lessening has on the whole increased in captain, two lieutenants, t hree sergeants, and fifty 

comprehensiveness and grasp. The schools are patrolmen, besides a number of special officers. 



BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 




ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, BEACON STREET RESERVOIR DISTRIC1 



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Brookline Fire Department. 



process of construction on Washington Street, 
where a lot of la ml had Kern bought for a nominal 
The first action taken by Brookline in regard to price from Mr. Thayer on condition thai n should 
fire protection was in 1 788, when Col. Aspinwall always lie used for this purpose, and into this new 
and Lieut. Crofts were chosen firewards. At that house the reorganized engine companv with its 
tunc and for long afterwards, Brookline had no renovated machine, moved in September 1844, 
i i nIc 'pcnilci 1 1 fire extinguishing apparatus, but de Feb. .">, Is in, S5U0 was a ppropriated for repairs to 
pended on the neighboring town of Roxburv. At the engine and the purchase of new apparatus, 
the town meeting of March 9, 1 7!i.~>. it was " voted In the spring of I S55 il was voted to spend 83,000 
tu pay niie hall the expenses ol the repair ol the for the fire department, 8700 for hose and a ppara- 
fire engine in future." Tins was the Roxburv tus, $1,300 for a building and land for the hook 
engine. May IS, 17'.t7. the town voted in bear and ladder and hydrant-hose carriages, anil 81,000 
one-half the expense of a "new wagon for convey- for a reservoir. An engine house was built on 
ing the fire engine. " April 0, I 820, a committee Washington Street in 1X71, on the site of the 
was "chosen to see what amount the town of Rox- former building, which had been erected in I'll. 
bun have allowed for the purchase of hose and In 1\71 it was voted to omit the election of fire- 
buckets for the new engine Norfolk, and that this wards and to empower the selectmen to appoint 
town meet them in any expense for the same nol a board of engineers of the lire department in 
exceeding fifty dollars. " April I, 1S31, the town their place. Alfred Kenrick Jr., was appointed 

i reasurer was directed to pay fifty dollars in t he chief engineer b\ I he new board. 'I' I hi engine, 

i lea surer of i he Norfolk engine for t he purchase of which was I he original one purchased in 1N39, I mt 

hose and carriage. Tin- engine was purchased practically rebuilt in IS43 after the fire, was still 

jointly by the people ol the two towns, the mi in use at tin- time. \ steam lire engine was 

en- uf Brookline subscribing $325, ami those of ordered in IS73 at a cost of $0,050. Mr. Kcn- 

Roxburv $150. The Norfolk engine cost $400, rick resigned as chief in IS74, and his sucessors 

and the balance of the money subscribed was useil have been .1. Thomas Waterman, William B. 

m building an engine house, which was located Sears, Horace A. Allvn. Moses .Jones, and since 

in the Punch Bowl Village on the site ol \Ial '\ ' I NTs, George II. Johnson. There are seven fire 

building, stations, and the apparatus consists of two steam 

In Is: Is, t he u|i I Norfolk engine was found nol to fire engines, and a plentiful supply nl hose, ladders 

be satisfactory, and ii was also considered that combination trucks, chemical engines, etc., and in 

Brookline should have an independent engine. addition 30 horses, 

Accordingly a committee was appointed to look The appropriation for the department in 1005 

into the matter, with the result thai in 1830 an was $73,027. 

engine was purchased from W. it ( '. Hunnemann Mr. Willard Estabrook, the present lire Com- 
at a cost of $000, and was named the " Brookline." missioner, was appointed In succeed Mr Ii. W. 
Although Brookline had paid the greater pari of Neal. who retired in 1005, after having served the 
the cost of the old engine, the town offered to give town faithfully for main years. 
it to Roxburv on condition that h be repaired, a 
company organized to man it, and that it lie lo- 
cated at the Punch Bow] village, which was 
partly in both towns. Roxbun accepted these On account of its proximity to Boston, Brook- 
terms, I n it tailed in carry I hem out. Eventually line ha- not been a y 1 field fur I neal newspapers 

ll Id engine was sold for $107.40, and the pro- A boys' paper was issued in 1855 and 1850 by F. 

ceeds divided, Roxburv receiving $50 and Brook- (.). Well man ami W. G.Willson, and the latter car- 
line 8147.40. A fire on Sept. 1-'. 1843, totally de ried il mi in 1857 and 1858. The Brookline Tran- 
■it roved the engine house and almost destroyed the script, a weekly, was published from Oct. IT 
engine ami n- apparatus. The cost of repairs in 1870, to Ma\ 1873, by Bradford Kingman. 
the engine, new apparatus ami incidental expen- The Brookline Chronicle, was started by W. II. 
ses, paid the following spring, amounted to $833.- Hutchinson, April 0, 1874, ami has since been 
70. A new engine house had meanwhile been in issued weekly. The successive owners nl the 



The Newspapers of Brookline. 



BRO( )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

Chronicle since Mr. Hutchinson's time, have Other important clubs are the Chestnut Hill 
been Wing & Arthur, C. M. Vincent, Arthur & Golf Club, the Warren Farm Coif Club, the Long- 
Spencer, and finally, in 1881, the present owner, w 1 Club on Monmouth Street, incorporated 

C. A.W. Spencer. From Augusl 7, 1S86, to March 188S,and the Riverdale Casino mi Francis Street, 

24, 1888, the Brookline News, an illust rated week- Longwood, organized 1803, also the Klk's Club on 

ly, edited by Louis Cassier, was published. The Harvard Street near Coolidge Corner, 
latest arrival in the field of Brookline journalism Brookline thus has all the advantages of the 

i- the Brookline Press, published and edited by best equipped modern city. In fact, she has supe- 

Ambrose K. Pratt, which is now in its third year, nm- advantages to most cities. Her affairs arc 

and Kids fair to be an influential and longlived better administered; ami her inhabitants live in 

publication. a locality, which, in addition to its nat ural advan- 

r-> . r\ii- tases, has all the improvements which art and in- 
Fost Oltice. ,,. , , • v. i ii n 

telhgence oi a high order, exerted disinterestedly, 

Thr first post office which served Brookline was | iau , , ls sno wn in these pages, been able in secure 

nut in the town limits, but was located in that part f or 1 1 |(1||| 
of the Punch Bowl village then in Roxbury, and 

about 1820 was housed in the tailor shop of Mr. Early Settlers. 
Pippen. Oliver Whyte, for forty years the town Brookline has always been so intimately con- 
clerk of Brookline, was the first postmaster. He neeted with Boston that its social, family and 
was appointed in 1829, and was succeeded by intellectual life has in reality been a part of the 
Stephen S. C. Jones in 1S45. dark S. Bixby was |, IM ,, rv f that city. The annals of the town, as 
appointed in 1852; Alexander II. Clapp, June 30, chronicled by Miss Harriet F. Woods, in " Histori- 
1855; John McCormack, Dec. 12, 1858; Cyrus W. eal Sketches of Brookline," contain many interest- 

Ruggles, Sept. 30, 1865. In 1883 the Brookline ing , l||( | some amus i ng accounts of neighborh I 

post office became a branch of the Boston office. events, incidents and happenings, together with 

narratives about ancient and more recent village 

Clubs. ,,,. town worthies, descriptions of old houses and 

Brookline, because of its proximity to Boston, estates, family histories, and much genial gossip 

never has had a need for places of amusements, all of which combine to present an interesting 

and as a consequence it has had no theatre. It is picture of a quiet, contented, but rather humdrum 

however, provided with the usual number of se- ami somewhat isolated community, with no par- 

cret societies, including lodges of the leading or- ticularly distinctive characteristics to distinguish 

del- common throughout the country, patriotic it from other similar contemporary places 
societies, business, social, and charitable organiza- Of the sixteen family names represented in the 

lions. petition asking for the incorporation oi the town 

The most important pleasure organization in in 1705, eleven are now preserved in the names oi 

the town is the Country Club, which has an exten- streets, places and squares, namely: Sewall, 

sive e-tate of a hundred acres of held and wood- Gardner, White, Stedman, Winchester. Aspinwall. 

land, on Clyde and Newton streets in the west part Devotion, Holland. Boylston, Woodward and 

of the town, in the neighborh I of tine pn\ate Seaver. The descendants of some oi these fami- 

estates lies ami of others who resided in the town at its 

It i- a beautiful drive of six mile- from Boston formation -till hold property, and the name- of 

City Hall. Tin- club ha- a race track and a line those first families endure in a few instances. 
polo -round known as Civile Park on Clyde Between 1635 and 1648, the land at Muddy 

Street, beautifully laid out. and witha grandstand River was allotted to the citizens of Boston, some 

for spectators capable of accommodating hun- of whom came to reside here, but the greater part 

dreds of people. On the property are a large only used the land as "planting -round" or to 

clubhouse, one of the best -oil .-our-.'- m the pa-ture their cattle. The ",-reat allotment" 

country, tennis courts, and other facilities for the was made .Ian. 8, 1636-7, and during the next 

diversion and entertainment of the members two years the original village of Muddy River was 

The member-hip is over one thousand in all likelih 1 virtually settled. The following 



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:i i,. (he names ol these original landowners, with 
the date on which il was allotted to them, and the 
amount of I heir allot menl . 

Alcoek, Tin imsi -. "In- great allot incut . ' ' Feb. 
7, 1 030 7. 

Arotishv, Kdniund, great lot, 3 heads, Vpril 
10, I03S. 

.",() Arratt. John, "the servant of William Bren- 
toii" "great alhtment," Dec. 12. 1636; | (lucres 

Atkinson. Theodore, great lot - hea<ls, Aug. 
:;i. 1040. 

:;--. Baytes, < leorge, IS acres. 
7 Beamsly, William. 10 acres. 
<) Beeke, Alexander, S acres. 

Belchar, Kdward. "great allotment," Dec 
12, I0S0. 
1 1 Bendall, Kdward, 2."> acn 

Biggs, John, s acres. 

IS Blackstone, William, 1") acres. 

Blanton. William, carj)enter, great lot. .'i 
heads. Feb. 24, 1 039. 
."i Bourne, Jarrat t , S acres. 

Bowen, i In lien, great lot. March 2.5, 103!). 

1 I (row nc. Kdw ard, S acres. 
22 Bulgar, Richard, 20 acres. 
I ', Burchall, Henry, I ."> acres 
2i) Bushnall, [■'rancis, 24 acres. 

Buttle-. Leonard, bricklayer, great lot, -I 

Is, Feb. 24, 1039 

Coll .i.ine. \l r \\ illiam, ' ' In- proport ion ol 
irround fur a farm near unto anil about In- house 
which he has there built ," Dee. I 1. 1655. 150 
acres, and Ml acres marsh, at time ol great allot- 
ment, fresh meadow, .Inn. 27, 1039, 

Cut ton, "Our Teacher, "Mr. John, "a sufficient 
allotment for si farm." Dee. II. 1035; and on \"o\ 
I. |(i:i(i. "all the land between the two brooks, 
next to William Colborne's allotment there, and 
so to the other end unto the shortest over cut be- 
voiid the lull towards I he northwest, containing 
250 acres; "this latter allotment of 250 acres, was 
confirmed at the tune of the great allotment'' 
January S, |fi">7. 
45 Courser, William, In acres, 
3 ( 'ramme, John, I acres 
.'.7 < in nwell, John, Hi acres 

( 'urtys, < 1 ue. sresit lot . 2 heads. I >ec 30 

103!) 

■ \ I I la \ isse, James, 10 acres. 

Day, Mr. Wentworth, Km acres. April 20. 
1041 



l'i Deining, William. 10 acres 

Dominqe, William, "great allotment," Dee. 
12. 1030. 
27 Dyneley. William. 21 acres. 

Kliot, Jacob, "swampthal joineth in hisallot- 
melil . next In ( 'nil mi Flax's house by I he ei ill 1 1 in i ii 

1 1 eh I. reserving the liberty to cut w I in il fur t he 

common fence that runeth through said swamp," 

February 20. I04S-!) 

30 l.lk\ n, I lenry, S acres. 

:; I Fairl isincke, Richard, 2-1 acre ■ . -old to 

Thomas Sa \ age, Jan. 21 . I OSS. 

I (i I n eh. James and Richard, 10 acre-. 

Fletcher, Kdward. great lot . 3 head-. < let 20, 
1040 

Flint, Mr. Tin ana-. 24 acre- marsh ground, a I 
the mouth ui i he \lndd\ River, June 2. 1037. 
15 firiggs, (leorge, 2N acre-. 

i Irosse, Kdward, lot 2 head-. April 27. 1040 

< i n isse, Isaac, ' ' great allot ment . ' ' .la n. !'. 
I ii 10 7. 511 acre-, 

54 (irosse, Isaac, ''ureal allotment," 50 acres, 
Jan 'i, 103G-7. 
1 -\ I larker, Ant hony, S aire-. 

20 lleaii.ii. N'al liamel. 20 acres. 

Hibbins, William, .'inn sicres, Uigusl 20. 

1040. 
In acres, May 25. 1640. 

Hollidge, Richard, great lot , :; head-. March 
jr,. 163!). 
I Houltoll, Robert . 10 acres. 

Hudson, William. I he vounger, ureal Int. •! 
hesids, \|.nl Hi. 163S 

Hull. Robert, "great allotment," Dee. 12, 
1 1 ;: Hi 
I 2 1 ne-. Mai hew, S acre-. 

Inge, Mow illt . ureal lot . 3 head-. April 10. 

I0SS. 

2 1 Jackson, Kdmund, S acre-, 
l'i Johnson, .lame-. S acres. 

Kenricke, John, great lot, -I head-. Dei ill 
103!), 

Leveret t, John, ureal lot , III head,-. July 20. 
1039. 

I ,e\ ei ii i . Thomas, propi irt ion of allot ment , 

Dec. 1 t, 1635; Kin acre-, and 15 acre- Inar-h. al 
I ilne uf ' ' urea I allot ment . ' ' 

Love, John, "house plot ami ureal lot , " Feb. 
10. Ki37. 

Mason, llalph, ureal lot . (i head,-. Feb. 10. 

1637. 



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in -Mears, Roberl . 20 acres. 

Messenger, Henry, great lot, 2 heads, Jan. 27. 
1639. 
32 M\ lam, John, 14 acres. 

Offley,Da\ id, great lot . 1 5 heads, Sept .30,1630. 

( (liver, James, 40 acres, Oct. 26, 1640. 

( (liver, Peter, 60 acres, ( >ct . 26, 1640. 

Oliver, Thomas, proportion oi allotment, 
Dec. I I. 1635; Kio aire-, and 15 acres marsh, at 
tunc of "great allotment;'' fresh meadow, Jan. 
27, 1639. 



1 I Reade, Robert . S acres. 

;;ii Reynolds, Robert, 25 acres; exchanged 5 
acres of uphind f(jr 5 acres "I marsh, July 9, 163S. 
lu Route Raphe, 12 acres. 

2 I Salter, William, S acres 

Saunders, Silvester, great lot, 2 heads. Feb. 
19, 1637. 

Savage, Thomas, "7 acres of marsh ground 
for the keeping of his cattle, ' ' Feb. 7. 1(>;>i>-7. 

Scottoe, Joshua, great lot, 3 heads, Jan. 27. 
1639. 




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1 1 ( Irmesby, \nne. S acres. 

Fainter, Thomas, joiner, great hiis, 1 head 
Jan. 27. 1639 

'ell. William, 25 acres. 

'eininerl on. John. 8 acres. 



head 
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'eb. 19. 1637. 
'ormont, Philemon, 30 acres. 

'Urton, Elizabeth, widow, S acres. 

.'cade, I'.sdl'as. a tailor, great lot, I heads 

Dec 24, 1638. 



Scottua, Thomas, great lot, 3 heads. Feb. 19. 
Hi.'!7; increased to 5 head-. Dec. 30, 1639; small 
quantity, May 31, 1641. 
S Scottua, Tomasyn, widow, 16 acres. 

Sherman, Richard, great lot, 7 head-, Dec. 



'errv, l-aac. house pint and great lot, 2 30, 1639 



Smvth, John, tailor, great lot, '■'< heads. .Iul\ 
2!), 1639. 

53 Snow, Thomas, " great allotment,'' Dec. 12. 
Ki.",ii: 10 acres at time of "great allotment." 



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Isaac Heath, Jr. 
Sam. Duncan, 

.1 mm '| ill 1 );i vis, 

Robt. Harris, 
Timo Harris, 
Danll Harris, 
-I ■ > 1 1 1 1 Harris. 



William Willis. 
John ( Iriggs, 
Erhvd. Cooke, 
Tho. Steadman, 
Jno Sanall, 
J no Stebbins, 
Sum hi Gates, 



The above list is taken from Mr. Bolton's 
Book, "Brookline: A Favored Town," and was 
copied by him from the manuscript record of the 
Suffolk Count_v Court, 1 ii7 1 -SO, now in the Boston 
At henaeum 



Rev. John Cotton did nol build a house at 
Muddy River, but one of his heirs. Deacon Thomas 
Cotton, erected a dwelling upon Washington 
Street, between Kent Street and Amden Place, il 
subsequently becoming the property of the Davis 
family and afterward of the Atndens, and con- 
tinued in existence until it was lorn down in 
ISO", by Michael Driscoll, and replaced by the 
present brick Muck. At the time of the incorp i- 
ration of the town, and for a considerable period 
afterward, the Sewall family seems to have been 
the leading one. The name of Samuel Sewall. 




RESIDENCE OF FREDERICK C. FLETCHER, I'l I I t.l',1; K K ROAD 



Old Families and Noted Persons. 

Among the families most conspicuous in the 
history of the town have been: The Aspinwalls, 
the Boylstons, the Devotions, the Davenports, the 
Da vises, the Coreys, the (larks, the Goddards, the 
Gardners, the Harrises, the Hyslops, the Winches- 
ters, t he Ackers, t he 1 1 rn re,, i hi- Heaths, the Ken- 
ricks, the Perkinses, the Robinsons, the Sewall-. 
the Thayers, the Withingtons, the ' . 1 1 'j •_'-'■- . the 
Whitneys, the Buckminsters, the Lowells, the 
Lees and i he Lvmans. 



.1 1 . was the first on the petition for the establish- 
ing of the town, his father, Judge Sewall. gave the 

place its name, and Samuel Sewall, Jr., was the 

lii'.- 1 town clerk. The Sewalls inherited I he estate 
of Robert Hull, one of the original grantees, who 
v, a- i he fat her of John Hull. I he fa mous mint 
niasterof thecolony and treasurer of Boston. The 
hitter's daughter married Judge Sewall. and in- 
herited her father's Brookline estate, which is 
said to have comprised about three hundred acres 
east of Harvard, and Beacon Streets, extending to 
the Charles River, in i he section now known as 



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Longw 1. Probably Judge Sewall wrote pur- 17S8, it was "Voted, That Dr. Aspinwall may 

tions of In- celebrated diary in the house mi his erect a hospital on his own farm for the purpose of 

farm here, which In- named "Brooklin." Sew- inoculating with the smallpox, and that the town 

all's Point was the headland between tin' Charles approve of the said Aspinwall to take charge of 

River and Muddy River, overlooking the salt the said hospital, observing the directions of the 

marshes to the south, and was in the neighbor- law relating thereto." During the lifetime of 

hood nt the presenl corner of Essex Street and Augustus Aspinwall, son of Dr. William, who died 

Commonwealth Avenue, near Cottage ["arm in 1865, the Aspinwall estate was one of the most 

statinn mi the Boston & Albany Railroad. Dur- beautiful in Brookline. The last occupanl of the 

ing the Revolutionary War there was a fort here. nld house on the liill was William Aspinwall. a 

traces of which continued in existence until the nephew of Augustus, who served the town as a 

building of the railroad. representative in the General Court, town clerk, 

Samuel Sewall, Jr. , the first town clerk, had the selectman, assessor, water commissioner, trustee 

first choice of pews in the meeting house when it of the Public Library, etc. He died Oct. 25, 

was built. His son, Henry Sewall, was also town 1892, aged 73 years, the lasl of the direct line of 

clerk. The son of Henry, likewise named Samuel, his family. 

inherited the Longwood estate. He wasa young In some respects the Boylston family is the 

attorney practicing in Boston at the outbreak of must famous in the history of Brookline. The 

the Revolution, but was so virulent a Tory thai he first member of the family to settle at Muddy 

was compelled in leave the country, forfeiting his River was Thomas Boylston, the sun of Thomas 

estates, and spent the remainder of his life in Eng- Boylston of VVatertown. The second Thomas 

land The Sewall house, presumed to have been Boylston was born in Watertown in 1<>44, 

lunlt about I7(i7. hut which has Keen owned for became a surgeon, in 1665, married Man 

several generations b\ the Stearns family, is now a Gardner of Muddy River, and settled with his 

beautiful old mansion owned and occupied by Mr. wife on the lands here belonging to her family. 

Charles II. Steams. It stands on the southeast The first mention of him in the records i> in 1671, 

corner of Harvard and Beacon st reets, facing t he and in 1674 lie was appointed sun eyor for Muddy 

former street. Amos Lawrence, a celebrated River by the town of Boston. His homestead 

Boston merchant and philanthropist, purchased estate was at the westerly end of the Brookline 

a portion of the old Sewall farm, including the reservoir, then a marshy meadow, on the present 

vicinity of Sewall- Point, and converted it into Boylston Street, which at that time in this part of 

an elegant estate. its extent was part of the old Sherburne Road. 

From the early years of the settlement of Muddy Dr. Thomas Boylston had twelve children. His 

River until I he last decade of t he ni net cent h cen- son Peter w ho inherited t he homestead, was one of 

tury.the name Aspinwall has been conspicuous in I he signers of l he pet it ion for I he in corpora I ion of 

thi' annals of Brookline. Peter Aspinwall, the the town in 1705. Peter's daughter, Susanna, 

first of the name, is mentioned m the Boston married John Adams of Braintree, and became the 

records in 1652 as surveyor of highways for Muddy mother of John Adams, the second president of 

River. He had evidently settled in the village the United States. While in office President 

about 1650, buying land from William Colbome, Adams visited Brookline. and was entertained by 

and is said to have built a house on Aspinwall Jonathan Mason, then a United States senator 

Street, about opposite the present St. Paul's from Massachusetts, at his residence which Stood 

Church, in 1667. The most celebrated member on the site of the present mansion of the Theodore 

the family was Dr. William Aspinwall, who was Lyman family. On that occasion President 

born in the village in 1743, ami died here 1823 Adams said that the last time he had passed along 

He built a large mansion house on Aspinwall hill thai road he had carried his mother on a pillion 

in 1803, which was lorn down in 1900 to make behind him on horseback. In 1S21 President 

way for a more modern dwelling. Dr. Aspinwall Adams, then 86 years of age,having expressed a 

was refused permission by the town by a vote, desire to again visit the house in which his mother 

April 27. 1 77s. to use his house as a "hospital for was born, a grand dinner party, given in his 

inoculating with the smallpox"; but on May 12, honor by Mr. David Hyslop at which Governor 

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Brooks, General Summer, and other distinguished 
quests were present, was held in the old Boylston 
House, which had been purchased from the heirs 
of Dr. Zadiel Boylston, by Mr. Hyslop's father. 
1 )r. Zadiel Boylston, a younger son of 1 >r. Thomas 
Boylston, acquired fame as the first to introduce 
the practice of inoculation for smallpox into 
America, He was born in 16S0. Asa resull of a 
letter he received from Dr. Cotton Mather,he in- 
vestigated the subjeel and began the practice of 



in the town record under date of June i:;. 1737, 
it I- provided: "That Dr. Zabdial Boylston have 
the deserted pew that was his Brother Peter 
Boylston's, to him ami his heirs forever, he pay- 
ing into the town treasury twenty-two pounds." 
Dr. Boylston was buried in the old cemeterv on 
Walnut Street. Miss Woods says thai in his will he 
"bequeathed hi- house and farm to t he town, as a 

home for the | r mi certain conditions. In 

which ime of his relatives was expected to accede, 



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THE M:u PARISH HOUSE OK THE FIRST PARISH CHURCH. 

file ] irsl Parish lias voted to build at once a Parish House, to include the present chapel, and 

the transformation oi the Old Town Hall, a stone building ol IS25, 

into a social hall of two stories. 



inoculation in 1721. In that and the following 
years he treated 247 persons in Boston and the 
neighboring town-. Notwithstanding the fact 
that the practice seems to have prevented the 
spread of the disease, Dr. Boylston was very 
unpopular for a time and in danger of personal 
violence. About 1737 he purchased the family 
estate from his brother Peter, and spenl the re- 
mainder <>f his life in Brookline, dying in 1766. 



but this not being complied with, the town 
missed the donation." In 17tis the house and 
estate, as well as his pew in t he church, as appears 
by the town records, became the property of 
William Hyslop, from whom it descended to his 
-"ii David Hyslop. but ultimately became the 
property of the Lee family. The house is on the 
north side of Boylston Street, opposite the west 
end of t he resen oir. 



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Tlic Goddards have always been an important 
family in the town. The first of the name men- 
tioned in the town records was Joseph Goddard, 
who in L715 was elected leather sealer and a 
member of the committee i" examine the ac- 
counts of the meeting house expenditures. He 
is said to have purchased the farm of William 
Morean. son of Dorman Morean one of the first 
settlers of the town. Joseph Goddard built the 
house "ii Goddard Street, which for a number of 
generations sheltered his descendants, and re- 
man in I in the iaiuil\ of its first owner for a longer 
period than any other dwelling in the town. 
John Goddard, the son of Joseph, carried on his 
ancestral farm, and during the Revolution acted 
as a eommissan to Washington's army when it 
was besieging Boston. He had charge of the 
wagons which transported supplies, guns and 
ammunition to the fortifications mi Dorchester 
Heights, Sniiili Boston, and performed ven • ■ f t « - < - 
five service. His son. also named John, was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary army, and afterward 
became a well-known physician and a man of 
mark; he settled in Portsmouth, \. H., and was 
elected governor of the State of New Hampshire 
and Cnited States senator, both of which offices 
lie declined to accept i tin 1 of his grandsons, the 
Re 1 Warren Goddard, was pastor of the High 
Street (Swedenborgian) church from 1S73 to 
1S7S, Samuel Aspinwall Goddard, a grandson of 
the first John Goddard, settled in Birmingham, 
England, before the Civil War, and did effective 
service by voice and pen in aid of the Cnion cause 
in that country. He has likewise written his 
reminiscences of Brookline, which are valuable 
contributii >ns b i local hist on . 

The Gardners have always bei n an influential 
and numerous family in Brookline. The tirst of 
the name to settle in the town was Thomas Gard- 
ner, who was appointed constable for Muddy 
River in 1f>-">7. He had two sons. Thomas and 
Joshua, and tour daughters, one of whom. Mary 
married Thomas Boylston. The second Thomas 
< lardner was one of the signers of the petition for 
the incorporation of the town: he was known as 
Lieutenant Gardner, probably on account of par- 
ticipating in the Indian wars. There was another 
family of Gardners in the town, as Caleb Gardner 
was likewise a signer of the petition, and it is sur- 
mised that the families were related. Their 
farms were in the middle portion of the town, in 



the vicinity of Walnut and Heath streets, and the 
present Cypress Street, originally knownas Bright 
on Street. Isaac Gardner, a grandson of Lieut. 
Thomas Gardner, was killed in an attack on 
British troops the dayof the Battle of Lexington. 
April l'.». 1775, and as he was a justice of the 
peace and a graduate of Harvard, the fact that 
such a man should be engaged in rebellion made a 
profound impression in England when the fact 
was known, as it so clearly indicated the temper 
and attitude of the colonists, [saac < Gardner was 
commander of the Brookline militia, who had as- 
sembled at the church and marched from there to 
Cambridge, and the skirmish in which he was 
killed occurred about a mile beyond the college on 
'he Lexington road. 

Next west of the Sewall or Hull farm was the 
farm of the Devotion family, in more recent 
times known as the Babcock farm. Although no 
one of the name of Devotion appears to have had 
an original grant, yet t he family must have settled 
\ ery early at Muddy l!i\ er. 

Edward Devotion's name appears in the re 
cords in connection with the locality as early as 
1651, and in 1653 he was appointed to o\ ersee the 
fences at Muddy River. John and Edward De- 
votion, who were brothers and the grandsons ol 
this first settler, were signers of the petition for 
the incorporation of the town. Ebenezer Devo- 
tion, a grandson of John, became a clergyman, 
emigrated to Connecticut, and was the ancestor of 
"Grace Greenwood," Mrs. Lippineott, at one time 
well known as an author. Edward Devotion, a 
son of John was for a long period the tithingman, 
elected to this office by the town meeting. 'The 
principal duty of this officer was to keep good or- 
der during divine service among the children, who 
sat in rows by themselves instead of with their 
parent-. A long rod was usually carried by the 
tithingman. with which to touch any delinquent 
who might become drowsj or mischievious. 
Whether this .ancient Brookline tithingman was 
part icularly feared by the youngsters does not tip- 
pear, but he was e\ idently not unfriendly to child- 
ren, as he adopted a boy and girl whom he brought 
up, as he had no children of his own." Edward 
Devotion died about 1762, and by his will, after 
bequests to Ins wife and others, left the remainder 
of his estate to the town "towards building or 
maintaining a school as near the centre of said 
town as shall be agreed upon." This legacy 



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amounted in 1 7<>_' to 739 pounds 4 shillings lawful England. The mosl famous members of this fam- 

money, bul in 1S45, by accumulations of interest ily have been: Hon. Thomas Aspinwall Davis, 

it amounted to $4,531.01, and was then used to who was mayor of Boston in 1845; Gen. P, 

pay pari of the expense of the town hall built at Stearns Mavis, who was killed in the Civil War, 

that time, two of the rooms in which building were July 11, 1S64, in front of Petersburg; and Robert 

used for school purposes. The Edward Devotion S. Davis, a Boston bookseller, who published 

-el [houses on Harvard Street, on the lands of Miss Woods' "Historical Sketches of Brookline," 

the old Devotion farm, now amply carry out the in 1874. .lames Davis was one oi the first land 

intent of Edward Devotion's will. He also be- owners, and Henry and Joseph Davis were resi- 

queathed to "the Church of Christ in Brookline, dents of Muddy River in 1679; a century later a 

one silver tankard containing one quart," and it branch of the Davis family had a house on New- 

is recorded that the town received from his exe- ton Street. 

cutors, May L'4. 1762, the sum of fifteen pounds In the neighborh 1 of the lower pari of Wal- 

a in I four pence for this purpose. nut Street, extending as far as Sewall Street, on 

Among the early settlers, contemporaneous both sides of the road, is said to be the "great lot" 

with the As|iinw alls, were the Sharp family. which was apportioned to Thomas Leveritt. one 

whose Brookline ancestor, Robert, bought land of the two elders, at the division of the lands of 

aboul 1650 from William Colborne, and the origi- Muddy River. It was probably never used by 

nal Sharp house was located in the neighborhood him or his son. Governor Leveritt, for any other 

of Harvard ami Auburn streets. Lieut. John purpose than the pasturing of cattle, bul the 

Sharp, a son of the firsl settler, was killed at Sud- name is preserved in connection with this farm at 

bury in the fight with the Indians there, during the present day by Leveritt pond adjoining this 

King Philip's War. and his son, Robert, was ancient estate on the Riverdale Parkway. Aboul 

killed in an Indian campaign in 1690. Martha, 1654 John White became a resident of Muddy 

the daughter of Robert Sharp, married Joseph River, and either at that time or soon after he be- 

Buckminster, of Brookline. and they were the an- came the owner of the Leveritt farm. John 

cestors of a distinguished family, among whom White also purchased fifty acres of upland ami 

was Dr. Joseph Buckminster of Portsmouth, his twenty-four acres of marsh from Thomas Oliver, 

son the Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster who was a the other elder, of Boston, in 1650; in 1670 he 

conspicuous Unitarian preacher, and Eliza Buck- bought forty-three acres from Ralph Mason; in 

minster, who became the wile of Thomas Lee of 1(17-1 thirty-two acres from Joshua Scottow; in 

Brookline, and was the author of "Naomi," and 167S twenty-nine .acres from Alice Pell, widow. 

ot her works, popular and much read in the second Jt is thus evident t hat John White became a very 

quarter of the last century. Members of the extensive landholder, and acquired many oi the 

Sharp family have for generations been prominenl original grants in the immediate neighborhood oi 

in town affairs, and have served as town officers. the village. John While lett numerous deseen- 

Stephen Sharp was town clerk for about forty dants. Three of the members of this family 

years after the Revolution. signed the petition for the incorporation of the 

Prom Deacon Thomas Cotton, about 174'J. town: Benjamin White, Joseph White, and Ben- 

Ebenezer Davis purchased that portion of the jamin White, Jr. Benjaminand Joseph Whitelived 

Cotton farm lying on both sides of Washington on t lie Sherburne Road, on the present corner ol 

Street. at the junction of Harvard Street, and be- Boylston St reel and Chestnut Mill Avenue, ami 

came the owner of the old Cotton House, which Major Edward While lived near I he coiner of 

-too. I between Kent Street ami Amden Place. Walnut and Washington streets. Samuel White 

Deacon Kliene/er Da v is, who died in 1775. was a who built a house between Heath and Boylston 

very successful farmer on this land, cultivating Streets, deeded a hit in Needham to the town for 

cherry and peach orchard-, and raised the first the use of the ministers, and this lot, twenty 

musk melons ever offered for -ale in Boston. IP acres in extent, was long known as I he minister,-' 

had his portrait painted with a musk melon undei wood lot. Oliver Whyte. grandson of Major 

his arm. and i his picture, under which was written Edward White, was the firsl postmaster of Brook- 

the legend "An American Farmer," was carried to line, and held ihe office of town clerk for over 

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thirt\ years. Major Edward White occupied a mere here. John Ackers, and hits son of the same 

douse i ii the west side oi Washington Street.be name, were signers of the petition for i lie ineorpo- 

i ween the present Beacon Si reel and the Brighton nil ion of the town. Mr. Francis Fisher purchased 

line, which was built either by himself or some of the original Ackers liouse in 1S50, pulled it down, 

his immediate ancestors. In it his son Benjamin built a fine mansion, and gave his name to the 

was born, and likewise his grandson Oliver, 1 m t hill. 

I he dwelling subsequently came into the possession Among t he families of Brook line, i he Winehes- 
of Captain Timothy Corey, and was afterwards ters have always held high rank. Alexander 
the property of James Bartlett who sold the house Winchester was one of the first landowners, and 
ami farm, including the land running to i lie lop of lie received an apportionment of twenty a ere- in 
Corey Hill, to the late Eben I). Jordan, the Boston the "greai alloit ment :" probably he settled at 
dry goods merchant, who here erected his beautiful Muddy River, for it is stated that twenty-two 
\ ilia, "Stonehurst ," on Beacon Street. years later, in L659, he was appointed constable. 
One oi the early families was the Ackers, who Miss Woods savs the familv was of Welsh origin, 
remained m possession of I heir farm for more than and that the earliest of the name here wwv John 
two hundred years. The first of the name to and Josiah Winchester. These were probably the 
settle in Muddy liner was John Ackers, who be sons of the first landowner. Alexander. I oui 
came the owner oi the land on the west side of members of this famih signed the petition for i he 
Chestnut Hill Avenue, near Boylston Street, and formation of the town, namely, John, Josiah. John, 
t hrough which at present Ackers Avenue extends. Jr. , and Henry, ("apt. John Winchester was the 
Here he I mill his house, which was I he home of In- first represent at ive from Brookline in the Ceneral 
descendants for six generations. It is supposed Court. "All the land from Harvard Street to the 
that he purchased his land from Jacob Eliot, a top of Corey's Hill and west as far as the Brighton 
brother of Rev. John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, line on that side of the street, belonged to the 
and minister oi the First Church in Roxbury. Winchesters." They were also principal owner- 
Jacob Eliot had received an allotment in Murld\ of Corey Hill, which at that time was well wooded 
River in 1 <i.".7. and in 164S he was granted "the The most celebrated member of the Winchester 
swamp thai joineth his allotment . . . next to family was Elhanan, who was of the second genera- 
Cotton Flax's house, b} the common field, reserv- tion from ('apt. John. Hi- father also named 
oil; liberty to cut hedging wood in it for the com- Elhanan was one of I he seceders from the First 
uion fence that runneth through -aid swamp." Church in 1711, during the ministry of the Rev. 
The ( 'on i minis, or Common Field, was an area of John Allen; these "come-out ers" w ho called t hem- 
five hundred acres, which was set apart by the selves "New Lights," established a religous meet- 
town ot Boston for common use. and it included ing, held services in private house- and had a 
the marshy meadow out of which i he Brookline preacher, Mr. Jonathan Hvde, for about thirty 
Reservoir was made, anil other adjacent land. In years, and t he first CI ha nan Winchester became a 
process oi time it was alienated and taken up. as m lay preacher or exhort er among them. 
this instance by the grant to Deacon Jacob Eliot. Elhanan \\ inchester, the second, was born In 
The remainder of I he Idiot land was sold to John 1751, and at first became a remarkable and effee- 
Ackers by Deacon Eliot's heirs in 169X. It is sur- five preacher of I he Baptist denomination, lie 
inised thai an Indian village once existed on this preached in succession at Canterbury, Conn., Re- 
land, as many Indian relics have been here turned hoboth, Mass.. Welch Xeck, S. ('.. Boston and 
up by the plow. (Inly a few mill's beyond here Philadelphia. He then became a convert to 
was the village of praying Indians at Xoiiantuni l'ni\ ersalism, and going to England in 17S7, 
within the present city of Newton, where the preached that faith with wonderful success in 
\postle Eliot went regularly to preach ; and proba- London. He remained in England seven years, 
bl v on his way to and fro, in follow ing I he Indian returned to Boston in 1794, and came immediately 
i rail, now Reservoir Lane, he occasionally stoppi d to Brookline, where he was received very cordially. 

at his brother'- house in Muddy River. The Ac- attended the First Church ill the forei ii one 

kers gradually acquired much of 1 he laud in the Sunday ami preached to a large audience at the 

\ ici nit \ , and I or seven generations | hey were far- Punch Bow] Tavern in t he evening. During the 

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following autumn he preached the new doctrine 
in many houses in Brookline, Newton ami Cam- 
bridge, a- well as 111 many churches of various de- 
nominations, ami made mam' converts, his aged 
father being among them. For the next three 
years, until his death on April IS, L797, he practi- 
cally art cd as a missionary of the 1 ni\ ersalist doc- 
trine, preaching in Western Massachusetts ami 
Connecticut, at Providence, R. I.. Philadelphia, 
Hartford, New York, and elsewhere. Mr. Win- 



fur his family of lift ecu children, and also contained 
a hall I'm- the religious meetings of the New Lights. 
It afterwards became the property of Ebenezei 
White, and was sold by Joseph White to Ebenezer 
Richards who conducted it as a tavern, and when 
the Worcester turnpike, now Boylston street, was 
opened in 1S00, an arch was thrown across the 
new highway from the rear of the old tavern, 
which then became the toll house. It was subse- 
quently known as the Sheafe place. In its best 




II \K\ \KI) COXGRICGATloXAL ('III IK II, H \l;\ ' \i;D STR1 I I 



Chester was married five times, but left no child- 
ren, as they all died ill infancy. His father. I lie 
first Elhanan, survived him, and died in the town 
of Harvard, Sept. 1S10, aged 91 years, having 
been iii succession a Congregationalist, a Xew 
Light, a Baptist and a Universalist in following 
his son, and after his sun's death, a Shaker. The 
house of hear. .ii Winchester, as the firs) Elhanan 
came tu be known by his religious associates, was 
built by him with their assistance large enough 



days as a tavern it was frequently resorted to bv 
parties from Boston, and was a favorite stopping 
place for travellers and teamsters on the turnpike. 
It was discontinued as a tavern about IS30. 

John Seaver was one of the petit inner- for the 
incorporation of Brookline. His farm included 
the top of Fisher's Hill, and a house built by his 

sun Nathaniel in 174'i st 1 on the crest of that 

elevation until after 1S50. John, .Jr.. ami Rich- 
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who seceded with Elhanan Winchester from the James Clark was an early resident of Muddy 

First Church in 1 74: ;. and funned the congrega- River, and bis name is first mentioned in the re 

tion of the Xew Lights. cords in 1669. His grandson, Samuel Clark, was 

The Coreys became an important family in the builder of the first meeting house, and also 

Brookline, and gave their name to Corey's Hill. erected a dwelling house on the corner of Walnut 

Captain Timothy Corey, of Weston, purchased and Chestnut streets, in the rear of which wa 

land from the White family, and settled in the garrison house. Robert Harris, an early settler 

town just before the Revolution. He married in "Putterham," the southwestern end of the 

Elizabeth Griggs, the daughter of an old Brook- town, being a landholder in 1677. was the ancestor 

line family. In his house, before the new house of Rev. William Harris, D. D.. president of Co- 

of Elhanan Winchester was erected, many of lumbia College. 1S11-1S29. 
the meetings of the Xew Lights were held. The Buckminsters were one of the original 

A family which from the first settlement has families of Brookline. and their farm comprised at 
had numerous branches in the town, is the Grigg- least a part of the present estate of Prof. Charles 
ses In the "great allotment" of 1637, George S. Sargent, on Cottage St reel The first settler in 
received the fifteenth apportionment, con- Brookline was Tin. ma-, who died in lii.'ifi The 
sisting of twenty-eight aire-, which was on the first mention in the records i- of a Joseph Buck- 
east side of Washington Street, in the neighborhood minster, probably the son of this first settler 
of Pearl, and extended along Muddy River where The second Joseph Buckminster married Martha 

Brookline Avenue now is. Th 'iginal house stood Sharp, and was the ancestor of Dr. Buckminster, 

somewhere in the rear of the present gas works. of Portsmouth. Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, the 

Dr. George Griggs built early in the eighteenth Unitarian clergyman, and Mrs. Eliza Buckminster 

century, or at least before the Revolution, "the Lee, the author. Mrs. Lee in one of her 1 ks 

Long House." which still stands on Washington thus describes her ancestor's farm: 
St reet : it afterward- became the property of Dr. "If we may infer anything from t he -elect inn of 

Downer, who added the western end to it. Dr. Thomas Buckminster's farm in Brookline, he 

1 ,. rge Griggs agreed with Joseph Craft- and must have had an eye for picturesque beauty. 

William Heath to pay his proportion toward His dwelling stood at the foot of wi eights 

building a dam across Muddj, River near the covered with a dense shrubbery, and fringed all up 

bridge, in 1721. The Griggs house at this time the rocky sides with delicate pensile branches and 

was m Roxbury Precinct, while the farm was in hanging vines. A rapid brook descending from 

Brookline. Mary Griggs, the daughter of Dr. these rocky heights, ran past In- door, -pleading 

Griggs, married Captain Wvinan. and finally in- out and winding in the meadows in front. Ja- 

herited this property, which was long known as maica Lake, a quarter of a mile distant, embossed 

the Wyman estate. After Captain Wyman's in beautiful undulations of hill and valley, slept 

death the old residence was used as a tavern for tranquilly in full sight of the house." 

-Mine years, and it retained the name Punch The houses of Thomas W Iward and 

Tavern, being in t he vicinity of t hat old inn ham Chamberlain, two of t he signers of tic pe 
and having secured t lie old sign when the original t it ion for t he organization of the town, were in the 
tavern was pulled down, "but it had little except southwestern part of the town, in the neighbor- 
local patronage, and that of the lowest sort, and hood of Newton Street. Thomas Woodward was 
wa- finally given up." A branch of the ( Dilili- probably a descendant of Nathaniel Woodward 
family bought the estate of ('apt. John Winches- who received the eighteenth allotment in 1637 
ter on Harvard Street. George and Thomas Abraham Chamberlain sold his farm to Caleb 
e been family name- among the (.riLii'-e- Crafts, who was the ancestor of a family long con- 
front the beginning clown to t he present, and they spicuous in t he town. In tin' -a me vicinity was 
have always been conspicuous in town affair- the farm of the Druce family, and the Heaths 
George Griggs wa- one of the chief advocates of gave their name to Heath Street, along which their 
the original extension of Beacon Street in 1849 and property law 

ISoO, and at the same period Thomas Griggs was Besides the Punch Bowl Tavern, which was the 

m public matters locally. principal inn in the town, and ha- been already 

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desci'ibed, were several ol her hustleries at different as the sett lements of cheap houses he erected near 

times. The old Winchester house erected by El- Jamaica Pond, chiefly occupied by Irish tenants, 

liana n Winchester, the father of the Rev. Elhanan were called. He is said to have 1 n a kind and 

Winchester, at the west end of the town, on the generous landlord; but he was lacking in rever- 
old road, now Heath Street, near its intersection cure for the religious prejudices of his wealthier 
with Hammond Street, became eventually a neighbors, and lost aoopportunity.it would seem, 
tavern. It was originally a large house, and to play pranks and carry out enterprises which 
passed from the possession of Deacon Y\ inchester offended their sense of the fitness of things. For 
to Ebenezer White, and then to Joseph White, thirty years he was the sexton of the I nitarian 
and some time before 1800 Ebenezer Richards be- Church, was town constable fur a numlier of years. 
came the owner. When the Worcester turnpike, and was captain of the Brookline militia company 
now Boylston Street, was opened in 1S06, it ran in for about ten years, from which latter eircuin- 
the rear of the Richards tavern, an arch was here stance he was always known during the latter 
thrown across the street, a toll gate established years of his life as Captain Bradley, 
and the tavern became the toll house. It con- The old Wyman House on the lower part of 
tinued to be used as a tavern until about 1S30. Washington Street, in the village, was conducted 
Like the Punch Howl, it was a popular place for under the name of the Punch Bow] Tavern for 
visiting parties from Boston and neighboring more than ten years after the original structure 
towns, when in its best estate. The house after was pulled down in 1833. In 1n44 this second 
it ceased to be a tavern became the property of Punch Bowl Tavern was conducted by J. Sprague, 
Henry Pettes, and subsequently of .Mark W. as appears by the town records of that year. 
Shea fe. a ud was long known locally as the Sheafe On the western border of the (own. on what is 
place. now Xewton Street, one of the first settlers was 
At the junction of Harvard and Washington Krosamon Drew, who was living here at least as 
Streets, but front i in; the hitter st reet chiefly, t here early as 1694, in which year he was appointed con- 
existed after the Revolution a large gambrel stable for .Muddy River. In the old records his 
roofed house which was known as the I >ana Ta\ - name is spelled in more than half a dozen different 
em for many years. It was conducted by Jona- ways. He was evidently an enterprising citizen, 
than Dana, and was the favorite stopping-place as after the incorporation of the town he was se- 
of farmers who had come into Boston from the lectman, assessor, member of the grand jury, and 
surrounding country to dispose of their produce. one of the committee to build the first Church. 
In the open space in front of it, now known as Har- He is said to have built his house in 1693, and it 
vard Square, was the town hay scales. Early in the continued in the possession of his descendants for 
last century this house was discontinued as a tavern generations, but was finally torn down in 1873 
and let for tenements, and in 1S16 was totally de- During the early and middle years of the last cen- 
stroycJ by fire during a night in January of that tury.this old house was known as the "Huckle- 
year. On that occasion, Benjamin Bradley, berry Tavern," because, as Miss Woods savs, "the 
afterwards an extensive landowner on Bradley tenant then occupying it was skilful in making a 
Hill. Boylston Street, and a man who seems to kind of wme from the abundant huckleberries of 
have delighted to shock the sensibilities of his con- the surrounding pasture-, and on election days 
ventional neighbors, in afterlife, "saved the life of the scattered resident- of the adjacent part- oi 
a woman and child by mounting a long ladder and Brookline and Xewton often resorted thither for 
taking them from an upper window." Miss the mild stimulants of society and huckleberry 
Woods makes the observation in reference to this wine." Erosamon Drew operated a saw mill on 
heroism of Mr. Bradley: "Let us hope this good his land. It was probably the first saw mill in the 
deed was set down to his account." Mr. Bradley town, and was well situated in that it obtained 
doe- not. however, appear to have been a bad power from Saw Mill Brook, the natural outlet of 
man. but only an eccent rie -me. Hi- was a master Hammond's pom I, and which likewise drained t he 
carpenter. ami erected houses for the poorer people I'utterliam meadow- by a branch stream. In 

to live in on "Bradley Hill." Boylston Street and addition, the neighbrl I was originally heavily 

in "( !rab Village," "Dublin," "New Ireland." etc timbered, so that the saw mill had plenty of ma- 

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for t he I '.in I -h Government, who was also one of 
the five commissioners to receive the revenues 
from the stamp act. Mr Hultoii used tin- house 
.'i- a summer residence, but when during the ex- 
citing times immediately preceding the Revolu- 
tion, the hoys of Brookline, manifesting the atti- 
tude of r he communi) \ . broke the windows of this 
house, he wisely remained in Boston. After the 
departure of Mr. Hultoii for Kngland,this house 
was forfeited to the State 

From 1793 to ISO;?, the Hon. George Cabot 
owned ami occupied the mansion house known as 
"Green Hill." on Warren Street, opposite Cottage 



bases her thei irv on the fad that the town in thai 
year gave him permission to change "the direction 
of the rii: id leading from the meeting house to his 
d well i ni; house, 111 such a manner as that t he said 
road when it passes by said dwelling house may be 
more distant from it than it is at present, provided 
that said alteration shall in no place exceed twenty 
feet, and shall in its whole extent nol exceed 
t went y rods." Mr. Cabot was succeeded in the own- 
ership of the house by Mr. Stephen Higginson, Jr. 
From some time late in the eighteenth century 
until his death in 1.S2S, the Hon. Stephen Higgin- 
son, a prominent merchant of Boston, resided in 




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From .1 photograph lent la/ Miss Julia CmhliiTil 



Street, original!} built in 1730 or 1732, and now 
the residence of Miss Julia Goddard. Mr. Cabot 
was one of the best known pi 1 Mir men oi his time. 
He was a United States Senator from Massachu- 
setts from 1791 tu 1796, and became the first secre- 
tan of the navy when that office was created dur- 
ing the presidency of John Warns in 179S. He 
was a personal friend of Washington and Hamil- 
ton. Henry Cabot Lodge, one of tii< j present 
United State- Senators from Massachusetts, is a 
preal grandson of Mr. Cabot. Miss Goddard is ol 
the opinion that the present front part of the 
mansion was built bv Senator Cabot in 1794. and 



Brookline. In INOo be presented the town with a 
bell to be useil in the steeple of the second meeting 
house of the First Church, then just completed 
The bell had been cast in London, and weighed a 
thousand pounds. Thomas Wentworth Higgin- 
son, the author, was a grandson. and spent some 
\ ea r- in Brookline as a t tit i>r in t lie home > >i his 
cousin St i '| nil II Ferkins. I lenry Lee Higginson. 
the I '» i-i i hi Banker, is a great trrandson of Stephen. 

I [i in. .Ii mat lian Mason, w ho was a l"i 
States Senator from Massachusetts in 1S00-1S03 
fi ii nut iiv \ ea rs a resident < if I Irookline. I le 
lived in an old mansion which occupied the -. - ol 



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the present fine residence of the Lyman family, 
ami here entertained President John Adams 
w hile in office. 

Col. Thomas II. Perkins, a successful Boston 
merchant .and his brother Samuel < 1. Perkins, pur- 
chased estates in Brookline in the early years of 
the last century, and were among the first to lay 
nut their grounds and ti give great attention to 
Imri icult lire. 

Col. Perkins gave his house and grounds in 
Soul h Boston to i he Inst it u! ion for t lie Blind, 
which was thereafter named in his honor. He 



beautified the grounds. Mr. Lyman was mayor 
ill' Boston in LS34-5, and in the latter year he per- 
sonally rescued William Lloyd (larrison from the 
mob at great personal risk. He died in 1849. 
His sun. also named Theodore, occupied the fami- 
ly estate, and his grandson of the -a me name, was 
a iii in 'i I naturalist, and of the three park com- 
missioners of Brookline to lay out the Riverdale 
Parkway. The Lyman family still occupy this 
beaut if ul esl ate. 

Mr Henry M. Whitney, the st reel railway capi- 
talist and man of affairs, has lone been a resident 




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of Brookline, and occupies a fine residence and es- 
tate on Boy 1st on Street, opposite the west end of 
state), and his brother Samuel's was at the corner the Brookline Reservoir, Hi- father, Gen. .lames 



died m Brookline in 1S")4. Col. Perkins' estate 
was mi Warren Street , near Heath (now the Cabot 



if ( 'oi tage and Warren 



S. \\ 1 1 1 1 r m • \ . was a resident of the town, and was. a 



Col Perkins entertained Lafavctte al dinner in member of t ho committee which built the present 



Ins Brookline house, June 20, 1S2S. 

Hon. Theodore Lyman, al that lime well known 
as a public man, philanthropist and legislator, 
purchased in 1S41, the old White house and 



town hall. 

Of the literature connected with Brookline, or 
written by natives or residents of the town, it can- 
not be said I hat there are any verv i mi able u orks; 



estate on Heath Si reel . beyond Warren, which bul there are many interesting points and mcr 
had been occupied by Hon. Jonathan Mason ear- dents in this connection worthy of being chroni- 
lier in the century. He pulled down the old cled. Governor John Winthrop mentions Muddy- 
house and erected a i lern mansion, and greatly River in his diary. Joshua Scottow or Scottoe, 



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as the early records spell the name, one of the 
early grantees of Muddy River, was the author of 
''Old Men's Tear- for Their Own Declensions," 
published in 1691, and "A narrative of the 
Planting of the Massachusetts Colony," pub- 
lished in 1694. Judge Se wall's Diary contains a 
number of references to Muddy River and 

Brookline, and portions of it may have I n 

written here. Sermons b\ the Rev. .lame- Allen 
and the Rev. Nathaniel Potter, ministers of the 
bir-i Church, have been published. Dr. Pierce 
published some sermons, and was the author ol u 
number of historical and antiquarian discourses, 



ported by the generosity of friends. The Hon 
Josiah Quincy, Stephen Higginson, William Shaw. 
and others, raised a fund to purchase an annuity 
fur her. which enabled her to pass her lasl years in 
comfort. While undoubtedly a person of much 
abilit \ Miss \< la m- was e\t remel V absenl -minded, 
and many amusing stories are told of her forget - 
fulness and lack of practical knowledge A por- 
trait of her, painted by Chester Harding, hangs in 
the I '» isl i in At hemellin. 

William Ware, the author of several historical 
novels, wrote one of them, "Zenobia. or the Fall of 
Palmyra," in Brookline. This h mk was published 




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already mentioned, which constitute the basis for lished in 1N3X. Mr. W are subsi tjuent ly edited the 

t he ea rly ln-t ory of t he tow n. 

The first avowedly literary personage thai the 
town produced was Miss Hannah Warns, who, 
though a native of Medfield, Mass . passed many 
rears of her life in Brookline, and died here Nov. 
15. 1832. She wrote: "View of Religion," "His- marriage came to reside in Brookline, in the bee 

tory of New England," a "Histon of the Jews." homestead, on Perkins Street . near the Roxbury 

and " Letters on the Gospels," and her books are line, wrote several books about the middle of the 

said to have had considerable solid worth, and to lasl century in her home here, which were ol more 

have been superior to the average productions of than usual merit. She wrote: "Sked \"e ' 



two Volumes of American I mtanaii Biography, 
the second volume of which contains a lengths 
skel ch of 1 >r. John I 'ierce 

Mrs. Id i /a Buc k n li nster Lee. a descendant of the 
Tlii ii' fa n nl \ of Buckmi listers, anil who ot 



t he t mie- They did nol bring her a competence, 
however, and during her lasl days she was sup- 



Kngla nd." I ' ■ >. " Nai imi," published in I ' 
novel dealing with the persecution of the Quakers 



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in Boston in ,-;i 1 1 \ colonial times, and whii 
tains main de Brookline in i 

nine--; memoirs of her fat her and mot her, in I' I' 1 . 
of \\ hicli Thomas ( 'arl\ Ic sa i< 
"a much bettei higher sort of 

N'ov Ki ml than anyl him; : 
seen <inci ".lean Paul 

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ehes of Brookline," by Robert S. Davis, a R 
bookseller, Inn a native and resident of Brookline. 
Miss \\ oods was enabled to issue her book lanieh 
l hroujih t he aid and em M r 1 >a\ is 

and of Miss Abbv 1. Pierce, a daughter of Dr. 
1'icrce \ siren 1 deal ol Miss Wood's m format ion 
was obtained at lirst hand from old residents and 
\ pa pers, and she was e\ idem 1\ pains- 
urate and fa it lit ul M iss \\ oods was 
born .Ian. 1?H. lS'J.' . tausihl school in Brook] 
! wctil \ three vo; rs, and died ( *cl . S, 1 711 

1 i I- "7 Mr. Charles K Hull. mi. i hen I lie libra- 
rian of i he Brookline Pul ilii l.ibran - - tied a 
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1 1, m Koberl ('. \\ Iiit hrop was :i resident "I Brook 
line, and delivered i lie oral ion a I I lie dedication ol 
[he present town hall. Feb. 22, 1S73. Mr. Win 
throp was a descendanl of Coventor John Win 
throp, and was distinguished as an orator and 
w riter. 1 [is oral ii us a I Plymouth. I (linker Hill. 
Washington and Yorktown, were especially me- 
morable, and he was for years speaker i I the na- 
tional House of Representatives, serving as a con- 
■j i < ■ — 1 1 1; 1 1 1 firm Massachusetts, Cenrge Make- 
peace Towle, am I her well-known author, was Ii r 
nianv vears a resident i f Brookline. lie served as 



have established reputations a- writers, may !"• 
inenl ioned : 1 he Rev, I i ederic I lenr\ 1 1 < ■ < 
i ne I in le mi nisi er i I I lie I'irsl Church i i Brookline, 
and a notcil autlii r and scholar; Rev. .1. Lewis 
1 liinan, past or < i t he I la r\ a rd ( 'hurch for some 
vears. subsequently pn lessor of hist on and i» 
lit ieal (i ■.in my at Brown l'ni\ersil v. from I' I to 
I ' ' I . a i id a ul In a' ol many re\ lew s and e.- i 
Hon. David Hall Rice, author of 'Tmtecti\e 
I'luli .-( ph\ " : Rev. Francis Wharton, writer on 
legal subjects; (VI, Theodore A, Dodge; More 
lield Store\ : Pereival Lowell; Frederic Law < Mm 







i ,1 i i. H. STONE HOOK VXD LADDER CO., \1 \ 'i '■■■>. 1*7:?. 

Sillini: .ii Id ■■1,1 . I 'l U illirri II I I Priii l<n .1 (.' Hen i\ \\ II 1 ill ■ ■ lieu I I I"! n I '■ I ■ ■ ■ U:i 

(left tnrinllti, Alfreii Kci k. ,lr., Jiilili Witlierell, Smnuel Kit-hunt n \ Kti ;.-m- Kenru-k, J:i H I I 'rod llnlu:r' 

\l.,y I rank Spiniiej I I I'nlm r. C. .1. I link. 

trustee of the I'ul)lic Library from 1S73 to 1SS7 -lead, the celebrated landscape architect wh 

and died in Brookline Aug. S, IK93. Charles 



Carleton Coffin, the well-known Washington cor 
respondent, and author of a number of patriotic 
Looks for boys, had jusi established a residence in 



made his home in Brookline for main years, and 
w hose la mil v have con! inued to live here sin re his 
deal Ii in 1 903: .1. id I n 1 1 ( 'abol . aul hor of a life of 
I imerson : S. N. I >. Xi rt h. si at isl icia n m >\\ c f 



Brookline when he died March 2. LS96. Kdward Washington; Henry V. Poor, and many others. 

Atkinson, writer on economic subjects, statisti- \niong present residents who are known as writers 

riaii. anti-imperialist, insurance expert , bush i here an ■ fid ward St an wood, I'rof. Charles S Sar 

man, lecturer, and otherwise active, was Lorn in gant. Desmond FitzCerald. James Jeffrey Roche. 

Ufred I ». Chandler, » > J » rne Howes. Mi- \gnes 
Blake Poor, and a list of tit hers, more or 



Brookline, in LS27, and died herein 1905. He wa 
alwavs active in town affair-. 



Among other former residents of the town who well known. 



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HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE BOSTON ELEVATED 
RAILWAY SYSTEM FOR BROOKLINE. 



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1-5 rmikli lie is known far ami wide as the most at- 
tractive residential suburb ol Boston \niong 
the many fart < irs t hat have helped to make Brook- 
line so desirable a place ol residence is the excel- 
lence and convenience ol the street car service 
I hat connect - I his town \\ ii It I lost on. 

It is impossible to estimate to what extent the 
prosperity and prestige of Brookline is due to the 
co-operation of the officials of the street railway 
company, but it is certain that there has not been 
;i more important eonl ribul or. The first line in 
Xew Kngland to be equipped with elect ricit v was 
in Brookline This fact is typical of many others 
thai demonstrate the pnlicv of the Boston Kleva- 
ted Railwav Company to give to Brookline the 
best service and most satisfactory pquipmenl thai 
can be pro\ ided. 

During the last few years tracks ha ve been ex- 
tended lo the N'ewton line, manv : i ■ 1 < 1 1 1 nnial live 
transfer privilege have been "ranted, and the 
frequency ol the trips has been increased in pro- 
portion lo tin- growth ol' population ami traffic. 
Over each ol the four thoroughfares used by the 
street car lines cars are run as frequent 1\ as even 
I wo mi iiulc- These cars are of the highest type, 
are admirable constructed and finished, are always 



clean anil at tract ive in appearance and are opera- 
ted 1>\ men who, :i- a class, are noted for their 
pi iliteness ami efficiency. 

Boston is said lo have the finest street railway 
-ii \ ice m i he world. No other company operates 
under one management , and as a part of one sys- 
tem, surface, underground, and overhead lines, 
whh free transfer privileges between the various 
kinds of service. Tin- vast system has made 
Brookline accessible from every point in nearly 
i he entire Metropolitan district at a cost of bin 
five cents, and at i he smallest expenditure in time 
I hat science and local com lit ions coin bine to make 
po-Mblr. The mam lines lo and through Brook- 
line are located in the 1 1 H i-i attractive portions of 
Boston and this lown, and the newer lines are 
bringing into the market and making accessible 
tracts of land thai have been for years of little 
value or use. These hue- acquaint the public 
with the beauties of Brookline, and thereby bring 
into the town many desirable persi ms who wish to 
secure homes thai coin bine the convenience of the 

city, the heall hl'lllness of (he country, ami the 

c ha nn a ml influence of a community of refined and 

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Nn history of Brookline would lie complete 
without at least a brief reference to the Boston and 
Worcester Si reel Railway. On accounl of the 
number of people, who, coining from the various 
parts of Boston and the suburbs, take the cars 
In!' Worcester at Village Square, ii may well be 

c-laii I that Brookline is the actual, though m I 

the nominal, starting point of that line. This has 
been an important factor in the business develop- 
ment of i hat sect ion of the I o\\ n. 

It is a singular fact, winch seems to have es- 
caped the attention of historians, that all the great 
advances in transportation method? in N'ew 
Kngland have been made in that section of the 
country which lies between Boston and Worcester. 
While not the first , the most important attempt at 



the shortening of the mileage eleven miles, the cut- 
ting of the running time two hours, and the saving 
ol ten cents in fare, give I his route an immense ad- 
vantage over any other trolley line I id wren these 
nl ies. 

\ll i Ins has not been done w it limn effort . Ii 
requied men of genius, ability anil foresight, as 
well .'is courage, to undertake i he task of maintain 
ing a line which should not only handle the local 
business along the route, but which should trans- 
port passengers from Boston to Worcester without 
change oi cars, affording them not only the com- 
forts but the luxuries of street railway travel. 
Happily such men stood behind the enterprise, 
ami I lie Boston and Worcester Street Railvvav is a 
nmmiinc'iii to I heir sasraoil v. 




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stage coach transportation was between these 
points; the stage coach gave way I" the steam 
railroad, and i he first thoroughly developed steam 
road was the old Boston and Worcester. The 
year I '.hi:; saw another step in advance. The high 
<peed electric line entered as a factor in i ranspor- 



R i va ling the heavy and noisy steam locomotive 
in speed, I he cars of I he Boston and \\ invest or run 
between these cities every few minutes, along a 
line w I in- 1 1 has si raight si retcho of i rack for miles, 
largely over private right of way, over grades 
which are no obstruct ion to the tremendous p >vvor 



tat ion, and the latest and greatest development of generated in the p >wer houses of the company, 
trolley transportation is in the line of the Boston \\ ith a double I rack extending nearly all the way 
and Worcester Street Railway, which connects from Boston to Worcester delays are not to be 
Boston with the heart of the Commonwealth. feared. The equipment of the Boston and Wor 
the Boston and Worcester Street Railway re- coster is of the best and most modern const rue- 
presents not only the latest development of trol- tion, and ovorv requirement of safety has boon 
ley travel, but the route lies through a region mot. Such is the electric railroad which has come 
which attracts thousands of people who use the today to succeed the stage coach and the loconn - 
electric cars for pleasure as well as business; and the. 



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1S00 Population, 605. 

IniiJ May 16, voted to build a new meeting 
house on sit c of one t hen standing. 

ISflo Corner-stone of new meeting house laid 
in April. Spire, 137 feel high; church 
measured 6Sx64 feet, and cost, complete, 
ahoul 820,000. 

lsnt: -Thai pari of Boylston street fr the 

\ illage tn Warren si reel and from I leal h 
street to the N'ewlon line made a pari of 
i lie old Worcester Turnpike. 

I ' mi Dedication of a new meeting house, which 
was fi r man} \ ears i he property of I he 
tow n. I >r. John I'ierce was i he ininisl er 



1816 Isaac Adams appointed master ol public 
scl Is. Ilr became famous for the bru- 
tality and ingeniousness of his devices for 
i he punishment of i f'fending -'In la rs and 
i he inconsistency of his devotion to church 
sen ice. 

IS16 [-"irst line of coaches to Boston established 
1 1\ a Mr. Spurr. Tw o 1 1 1 1 > — w ere nia<le 
daily leaving from "Punch Bowl Tavern." 
Fare, 2o cents each way. Discontinued in 
a vea i' from lark oi pat ronage 

I _' | John Tappan buill the hundredth dwelling 
house in Brookline, known now as the 
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1S1-J The town organized a company of fifty 
men in serve in cases of an invasion ol the 
British army. 

IMI War of IS12 unpopular in New England. 
A company of twenty-six men ami officers 
and fifer w as i irgani; ed a tul i irdered . Sept 



IN21 The Brookline end of the Mill-dam road 

1 1] iened to public i ra \ el. 
1S2-1 Brick schoolhouse at corner of Warren anil 

Walnut streets was torn down and material 

of sa me si • ] • { at public aucl ion I lee. ■'< . 

price, SI IS. IS. 



IS. to I 'mi Independence for three months, 1 v_> | After much cont mversy the first town hall 

unless sooner discharged. 
1S16 Dana's Tavern destroyed by fire in Janu- 



was built by Roxbury builder, and «a.' 
considered :i poor job. bower floor used 



ary. This building stood on the site of a 
brick building on Washington street, next 
in Harvard square, formerly used sxf the 
posl office. 



for a -el 1- Building still stands on 

Walnut street, next to the first Parish 
Church, and is known as Pierce Hall. 



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IS57 The Public Library opened in lower hall ol 
town hall, with mill volumes. Mr. John 
Emon Hoar was librarian 

1S57- Kenri'ck Brothers' building erected on 
Washington street. 

1857 Jamaica 1'ond Aqueduct Company was in- 
corporated to supply water to residents of 
Roxbury, Brookline and West Koxbury, 
from Jamaica Pond. 

1S57 -Swedenborgians organi ed \pril 20. with 
Re\ . T. R. Ha\ ward, pastor. 

,. .-,., Baptist Church at corner of Harvard and 
Pierce streets dedicated 1 >ec. I . 

1859 -First horse car run between Boston and 

Brookline via Tremont street and Rnxbun 
( 'rossing. 
I- 59_(i u ild's l)loek built, comer ><\ Washington 
anil Bovlston streets. 

1860 Sears chapel, I ongwood, buill by David 
years, and is a reproduction of ;i church m 
( 'olehester, England. 

1861 -April 23. Wm. I». Coddard was the first 

soldier to enlist. 
[861 Wilder Dwighl raised a regiment and be- 
came major of Second Pegiinent. Was 
mortally wounded at Antietam. 

1862 -Present edifice of the Swedenborg Society 

,„, High street, corner of lr\ing street, 
ere cted. '1'. H. Hayward lirsl pastor. 
1S65 Whyte's block built in \'illage square. 
1867— Horace .bun.- first elected ;i Selectman 
1S6S— Church of Our Savior. Longwood. organi ed 

Feb. 19. 

186S -Church of Our Savior, built as a memorial 
I,, Amos Lawrence. Lirsl services. March 
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1869 Public Library building Imilt on Washing- 
ton st reel 

1S70 Oct. 15, first copy of i lie Brookline Trans- 
cript appeared. Bradford Kingman, edi- 
tor and proprietor. This was I lie first 
regular newspaper issued in Brookline. 

1870- Limine house, \ illage square, built. 

1870- John L.<;ardner.Esq..gaveS10.000tothe 

Public Library. 

1871- Feb. 25. the Brookline Savings Lank was 
incorporated. 

1871 - Live department building mi Washington 
street, near Thayer street . was built. 

1871- Beth Koran Lodge. A. I and A. M.. was 
chartered in September. 



is;:; Lirst steam fire engine purchased at ;i cost 
,,f §6.050. ami named in honor ol I hoinas 
Parsons. 

187:? Town hall built, fel.. 22, dedication ol 

building. 
I-,;;; Harvard Church built, corner of Harvard 

a ml Marion st reets. 
ls7; . | n ,,, U |, meeting < >d . 7, citizens rejected 

annexation with Boston by a vote of Tih 

in 200. 
|. ;7: ; st. Mark- Methodist Episcopal Church 

i irga n i ed 
1-71 The Chronicle, a local weekly . was estab 

lislied April 0. by W H. Hutchinson. 
1S7I Rooney's block, Harvard square, was built. 
I.S75 Rev. Leiien Thomas, present pastor, was 

installed as pastor of Harvard Church, May 

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1N75 May 27. water supply turned mi. 
1S 7(5 ()ld Masonic building corner of Sri I ami 

Harvard streets, built. 
IS76 Centennial elms planted in front of town 

hall. July I. 
|..70 Miss Harriet F. Woods, for twenty-three 
vears teacher in the public schools, and the 
author of "Historical Sketches of Brook- 
line," died in Newton, Mass., Oct 8 
I; ; o Second attempt at annexation with Boston 

\ , ited dow n. "'11 to 271. 
LSs-2 The Country Club, mi Clyde street, was in- 
corporated. 
,... 2 Si Mary's Church of the Assumption was 
I, u ,li. ai the corner of Harvard street and 
Linden place. 
IS: ", lien < linery Twichell died July 2:;. 
ISSfi Plan to widen and lay out Beacon street ;is 
., boulevard first agitated by Henry M 
Whit ney. 
1SS6 Corev Hill Toboggan Club formed. 
I-,-, \-„rt'h wing to Public Library was added. 
ISJ)1 (ien. Edward \ Wild, who served with 
distinction throughout the Civil War and 
1 . lU>] . U1 ,iie Crimean War. died at Medellin. 
Colombia. \ug 2S 
|..ij Regular services commenced by the I m 
aists in ehapel. corner of Washington 
and Cvpress -I reel - 
IS9-J Cardner Hall reading room in Public Libra- 

r\ ..pencil. 
18 96 The public bathhouse on Tappan streel 
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BROOKUNE'S BI-CENTENARY. 



Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Town's Incorporation. 



CHAIRMAN OF GENERAL COMMITTEE. wall. M. .1. O'Hearn, Mrs. Edith C. Baker. Mr-. 

Rufus 0. P. Candage T,r/ah s - Arnold. 



-I i IM TARY <>1 GENERAL COMMITTEE 



BELL RINGING AND ELAG DECOR \TION 



Edward W Biker Willard V Gross, A. Eugene Kenrick. B. Frank 

Carroll, Miss Ellen Chase, Miss II. Alma Cum- 



I'RESIDTNG OFFICER AT THE ORATION. 



Illllliis. 



Moses Williams FIREWORKS. 



HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



Michael Driscoll, Nathaniel Conant, Georse 



Edward Atkinson, Thomas Doliher, Horace \. Maim - M >" Helen F - Kimball. Mi- Lucy S. Davis. 

Fisher, Frederick II. Hedge, James I.. Little. DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENTS. 



Thos. II. Talbot, Rev. Wm. Orne White, Frede- 
rick Beck. Caleb Chase. Frederic Cunningham, 



Charles F. White. Albert A. Folsom, George II 
Francis, Henry W. Lamb. Anson M. Lvman. 



James R. Dunbar, Taunan E. Francis, William ,, , i- ,, ' , .,■ , ,, ,, 

11 Palmer E. Presbrev, Miss Louise Howe. Mi- 
ll. Hill. Michael W. Quinlan, Henrv M. Whitney, ,.,■ i ,, u - w-ir 

v • Eli/ahet h \\ . \\ imam-. 

i i L. Willctitt, Wm. I. Bowditch, James M. 

Codman, Wm. Tracy Eustis. Thomas IS. Griggs, SUNDAY EXERCISES. 

Horace James, Charles S. Sargent. James M. Sea- Rev. Leonard K. Storrs, D.D., Rev. William II 

man-. Francis A. White. Alfred Winsor, George Lyon, P.P.. Rev. Avery A. Shaw, Rev, Reuen 

Brook-. Henn S. Coolidge, Cieorge 1'. Fabyan, Thomas, D.D., Rev. Michael T. McManus. Rev. 

Samuel W. Hall. Win. II. Lincoln. Wm. T. R. Charles F. Harvey, Rev. Dillon Bronson, D.D , 

Marvin, Oscar B. Mowry, Wm. B. Sears, Joseph Rev. George 1.. Perm. D.D., Rev. John Sinclair. 

II. White. D.I). 

SUB-COMMITTEES. ORATOR AND SPEAK! RS 

FINANCE. Prentiss Cummings, Fred II William-, Franklin 
James M. Codman, Jr.. Jerome Jones, Alfred D. W. Hobbs. Frederick L. Gay, Mrs. Martha Kit- 
Chandler, Albert L. Lincoln. R. (,. F. Candage, tredge. 
Patrick .lohn-oii. Luther M. Merrill. 

INVITATIONS. 

Charles II. Steam-. Charles II. Utley, Patrick George I. Aldrich. Mrs. Clara P. Blanchard. Mr.- 

< I'Lousjhlin, Mis> Julia Goddard. Mrs. Susan Vin- Marv A. Driscoll. 



SCHOOL CHILDREN EXERCISES. 
Joseph Walker. Rev. Daniel 1 >. Addison, D.D.. 



ing < Iriggs 

RECEPTION 



MEMORIALS, MEDALS AND TABLETS. 

Desmond Pit/.Gerahl. Fred I.. Olmsted. John G. 
Henry W. Lamb. Walter Channing, Charles A. Stearns. Thomas P.. Fitzpatrick. Daniel S. San- 

William-. Mr-. Susan M. Gross, Miss *ignes p. fonl \j r ,, Elizabeth P. Lvman. 

IW. Mr, William D. Hunt. 1 , |;| ^ , x „,,,,, XT1 X( , 

MUSIC Charles I Read. Edward H. Clement, diaries II 

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PROGRAM OF LITERARY EXERCISES. 

The 200th anniversary celebration opened on 
Friday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon when Hon. 
Henry Cabol Lodge delivered the oration in Town 
Hall before a large audience. On the platform 
were seated many representative men oi the 
town and several of the « Ider residents. 

Music: American Fantasie -Tallin. 

Invocation by Rev. Leonard Kip Storrs, l).l> 

Music: "\ i ice of Love" Schumann- played 
in remembrance of the founders and benefactors 
of t he town of I Srookline. 

Precisely al '■'• o'clock Moses Williams, the pre- 
siding officer, formally opened the exercises by a 




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few preliminary remarks, after which he intro- 
duced Senator Lodge, who was given a must 
llai i ering reeepl ion. 

A more artistic or appropriate setting for.such a 
proud event in the history of Brookline could not 
have been prepared than that which the large hall 
presented, with its elaborate decorative scheme of 
national (lags. The walls on either side were 
hidden with la rge silk Hags, ami across i he top ran 
streamers of bunting in every direction. Follow- 
ing 1 1 is im i-i duel ii n i the senator began his oration, 
in which he had dev< ted much care and attention. 



Oration by rm Hox. lli:\nv I'uiht Lni»,i. 

Senator Lodge's address traced the history of 
the town meeting from the days of Greece and 
Home through the earliest Saxon civilization to 
its present development in Brookline. He 
pointed out its good features and also its limita- 
tions, asserted representative government should 
not be coerced by crowds of people representing 
one portion of the community, and declared that in 
the i 1 1 1 1 i \ idual liberty as manifested in the I'nited 
States, and the present form of I . S. government, 
i he results of endless experiments, were the epi- 
tome "I many centuries of patient labor for im- 
provement, lie said they lay midway between 
anarchism on one extreme and socialism on the 
ul her. The recent trend inward socialism, under 
the name of government and municipal owner- 
ship, was opposed at lengt h. 

A few abstracts are here given, which have a 
particular bearing upon Brookline. The history 
of the towns and counties of Massachusetts and 
Virginia and of all the colonies which fringed 
the Atlantic seaboard seems trifling enough 
unless we lilt our eyes and look out from ii 
at the United States today. Then i his story of the 
days ni small things takes on an importance 
which may well give us pause and which bids us 
search for the deeper n leanings it contains. \ nil 
may find those meanings here as in our other 
towns, for there is a great similarity in the hist ry, 
the character and the ruling principles of (hem 
all. The same spirit inspired them in the ea ii \ 
days. Here, as elsewhere, the space of ground 
upon which the town stands, becomes visible to 
history and detaches itself from the rest of the 
earl 1 1 by the appearance of the Indians. 

"Ten sagamores and many Indians" are men- 
tioned in connect ion with this spot in Hi:;:;. Their 
dark figures show out for a moment against the 
background of hills and forests anil then vanish, 
precursors of the fate of their race throughout a 
continent. Then we hear of a little hamlet by the 

Muddy ri\ er al tached to t he jurisdicl i I I »i 

ion. where, iii Hi.Xfi, the si rung love of local self- 
government made u-ell felt and a degree of inde- 
pendence was obtained. Then the village ret virus 
in Boston, and at last in 170o the spirit of inde- 
pendence prevails and the town is established, 
giving us the anniversary which we commemorate 
today. Ii was the S3d community in Massaehu- 
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\\ lien responsibility vanishes representative gov- 
ernment is at an end, and all the safeguards i i de- 
hate and discussion of deliberate action, of amend- 
ment or compromise, are gi ne forever. Legisla- 
tive anarchy would ensue, and we might easily 
find ourselves in a prsition where the mob r-f :i 
single large citv would dominate legislate n, and 



modification, so essentia] to wise legislation, is 
absolutely impossible. 

"Poverty is a terrible evil which all right- 
minded men should labor to alleviate and to re- 
duce, but it '"in hardly lie lessened by a system 
which would destroy all wealth by removing 
every pi ssible desire for its creation or increase. 




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laws would be thrust upon us ruinous to the state 
it sell and to the best interests of the entire people 
nt the state. Ko constitutional change or statu- 
torj arrangement should ever be permitted 
which would take from the representative the 
responsibility of final action by his own vote or 
allow him to shift that responsibility on to a 
reference to a popular vote where amendment or 



Vel e\ en t he ex! incl ion of the v, i rms of 

[I. erty, were that possible, would be a heavy 
price to pa \ for the dest ruction of ho] >e, of striving, 
of the effort to lift one's self and one's folio) 
little higher, which alone makes life w "ill! having. 
If like the Kuropoan socialists you carry the old, 
old system which you would reimp ise upon man- 
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THE FIREWORKS 

The display of fireworks on the Cypress street 
playground Friday evening ch sed the first da\ ol 
the celebration, and was witnessed by a large 
number of people despite the cool weather The 
evening was a delightful one in every respect. 
The exhibition which lasted less than thirty 
minutes was a creditable one in every respect and 
seemed to please all. The Brookline band was 
present and discoursed an interesting musical 
pri igra m. 

THE SECi iXD DAY CHILDREN'S 
EXERCISES. 

The most enjoyable feature of the entire cele- 
bration, and one which won more approval than 
any other, was the children's exercises, both at the 
memorial tablet and at the town hall. The 
marching of the children, especially to and from 
the tablet on Saturday morning was excel- 
lent, and is worthy of the highest praise. Over 
two thousand children participated in the exer- 
cises nl' the day, which consisted of day firew orks 
on the playground at nine o'clock, and which 
lasted until almost ten o'clock, singing at the 
memorial tablet erected on the green in front ol 
the First Parish church on Walnut street ; and in 
the afternoon they journeyed to the town hall to 
listen In addresses l>v some of the must distin- 
guished men of the state. From early in the 
morning until the time for the exercises drew near, 
little tots in their first vear in school, and big, 
dignified seniors in the high school could be seen 
here and there, and all wearing an eager and ex- 
pectant look on their bright faces. Kach and 
every one were jubilant over the thought thai he 
or she was going to take part in one of the most 
gh nun- events of the celebration, and one that 
will go down to posterity as one of the grandest 
and mi st uplifting ceremonies of the anniversary 
of the incorporation of the town of Brookline. 
The day fireworks on the Cypress street play- 
ground consisted of a great number of paper bal- 
loons made after the shapes of all sorts of animals; 
nf bombs containing quantities of confetti which 
fell .ill over the crowds when they burst; and of 
rockets which held small balloons which spread 
out when the explosion came high in the air. 
From 0.30 until 1(1 30 the children of all of the 
scl I- looked on and cl red these features. 



Following the fireworks came the parade which 

started from the playground as n as the last 

balloon went -ailing into I he air. 

The parade was headed by the members of the 
local post uf I lie ( I. A, R., a ml despit e t he age of 
most uf the members of this grand i Id body of 
men their marching uniild have dime credit to 
maiiv of our younger militan nun (ieorge I 
Dearborn uf I lie (band Army was the chief mar- 
shal, and he was assisted by Willard V. (boss. 
These two men gathered their jmemle arm\ 
quickly, and each school inarched with a banner 
giving the name of the school and the number of 
the particular grade which followed. The teach- 
er- acted as sergeants and corporals, and there was 
not a hitch in the en I ire arrangement. When t he 
public realize what an undertaking it is to make 
arrangements for marching for over two thousand 
children, so that there will not be any confusion, 
thev can appreciate the mam months of hard 
work mi the part of those who had the parade in 
charge. Both in marching on and off the play- 
ground and also during the line of march, abso- 
lute order was maintained. There was no shout- 
ing or cat-calling of any description, and even 
child seemed to be trying to outdo the other in 
good beha \ ior. 

At Bovlston si reel a reviewing stand had been 
erected and here the reviewing party saw the pro- 
cession. They were Joseph Walker, the Rev. D. 
I). Addison, Mrs. Mary A. Driscoll, Mrs. Clara I 

Blanchard, Mrs. Edith C. Baker, Mrs. Tl las B. 

In , pat nek. Mr-- Ruth C. Paine, the Be v. William 
II Lyon, Prof. W. T. Sedgwick, franklin \Y 
Hobbs, Dr. E. M. Bowker, Michael Driscoll, Dr 
Walter ('banning and Mr. and Mrs. Hartvig 

\l--ell. 

The procession proceeded to the tablet, which 
was covered with a large \merican Hag and which 
was well situated in the triangle formed by Walnut 
and Warren streets. The children then marched 
around the tablet, until a compact mass had been 
formed, and then at a given word the direct deseen 
dants of the men who petitioned to have Mudd\ 
River set off from I'm. -ton and name. I Brookline, 
and whose petition \\a- granted just 200 year 
ago, pulled up the flag which covered the bronze 
plate set in a huge piece of granite, When the 
Hag went up the band which led the procession 
played "America, ' and i he cut ire mass of children 
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woods re-echoed with glad refrain. Charles F. 
While was ilif presiding officer at the exercises. 
\Yilli:iin II. I. vim ill" the First Parish church made 
the invocation. Frederick Law Olnistead, Jr., 
for the committee on memorials, presented the 
tablet to the town, and Albert I.. Lincoln re- 
sponded for the park commissi] tiers. An address 
was deliveied by Charles II Steams, after which 
the children pulled the cords, which raised the flag 
In in the tablet. The tablet gives the names of 
the signers of the petition, and tells al the 1 >< . 1 1 « m 
tit' tlif marching from that spot of the men who 
toi 1. part in t lif hal t le of Lexingt i n. 



Richard C. Paine, Elizabeth M. Paine, Frank W 

Small, ( ifii unit' Welling, William Harman- 
Brown, Helen Winsor, Merrill White, Henry 1> 
White, Katherine 11 White, Carolyn Ohnstead 
Francis P. White, Margaret Perry, Marian Hall 
Agnes Lee Ward, Rosamund Hunt, Miss Wheel* r 
Herbert White, Francis Rooney, .It hn J. Rooney 
Thomas Roonev, Cieorge White, Hannah White 
Evelyn Hitchcock, John Hitchcock. The ladies 
who liil the unveiling were: Mrs. T. II. Kitson 
Miss Emily 1!. Shepard, Mrs. William 1 1. Hunt 
Mi-- \ 1 1 1 1 it ■ I!. Winchester and Miss Grace Dana 
\\ 1 . ii t In' t \fi rises at i lir tablet were finishei 




i in ci .auk house, w aim i si i:i it m n.r i\ 171.5. 



Tlic children who took part in the unveiling the procession re-formed, ami to tin- music of a 

were: Gardner Aspinwall, George \spinwall, hand, marcher! u> their respective schools, after 



Lucy Aspinwall, Augustus Aspinwall. Stokelej 
Mi rgan, William F. Tufts, Amy I.- Rhodes, 
Miriam A. Rhodes. Man G. Brooks. Clark Rrooks, 



which they were dismissed. One of the must 
pleasing features of the parade was t he presence of 
the teachers, who marched with their respective 



Royal W. Heal, Benjamin S. P>lanchard, Edith classes. At the etui of the procession came the 

Blanchard, Martha Eliot. Abby Eliot. John S. faculty. Another very pleasing feature of the 



t 'ha lee. t Ian 'lire Shepard. Francis Shepard, Hilda 
Shepard, Katherine Shepard, Went worth Shep 
anl. Elsa Badger. Salh G. Hawes, I!. salind Win- 
chester, Dorothy Winchester, Edmund Winches- 
ter, Nicholas Worthingtt n. Francis II. Cummings, 
K t 'uminings, Jr.. I lorot hv Kitson, 



parade was the perfect step maintained by the 
children during the entire line of march. They 
kept in time with the music, ami the interval be- 
tween fours was of 1 he proper distance. 

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On the platform were t lie members of the school 
board, the Boston festival orchestra and the 
speakers. Gov. -elect Curtis Guild, Jr., Rev. Dr. 
William II. Lyon, Bishop Lawrence, Rev. Dr. D. 
D. Addison and Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas. Frank- 
lin W. Hobbs, chairman of the school board, pre- 
sided. 

The programme opened at three o'clock wit h an 
overture by the orchestra, after which Dr. D. D 
Addison delivered the invocation. The children 
sang "Hamburg,'' which was followed bv an 
address by Rev. Dr. Lyon on "Old Schools and 
New." He nave an interesting sketch of the 
school lifeol the olden days, and compared ii with 
i he school life of today, with the present excellenl 
system. The chorus sang the "Festival Hymn," 
after which came an address by Bishop Lawrence 
mi "School and Character." The chorus and a 
trio, consisting of Miss Helen Black, William L. 
Snow and St. Clair Wordell, rendered "The 
Heavens are Telling," by Haydn. Mr. Hobbs 
then introduced the governor-elect, who was re- 
ceived with loud applause He spoke on "Citi- 
zenship," 

Bishop Laurence was also one of the speakers. 

The exercises concluded with the singing of 
"America" by the children, and the benediction 
by Dr. Thomas. 

Al the close oi the exercises a request was 
made l>y I he children present to shake hands with 
Gov. -elect Guild and Bishop Lawrence, which was 
kindly granted by the two speakers, and nearly 
every child, as well as every grown person present, 
shook hands with the two distinguished men. 

The third day being Sunday, the clergymen 
m Brookline all preached appropriate sermons 

with reference to the celebrations. The services 
were well attended for the ino.-t part, and I lie 
music was I" t h elaborate and interesting. 



CLOSING FXKRCISKS. 

A fitting ending to a glorious celebration, in 
which the people of Brookline celebrated the 200th 
aimi\ ersary of the incorporation of our town, came 
to a close on Monday evening, when about lOOOof 
our citizens attended a banquet in the town hall. 
Tin- banquet began sharp at 6 o'clock, and the 
speaking at S. ('apt. R. G. F. Candage of the 
board oi assessors acted as presiding officer and 
toast master. 



Mr. Candage began the speaking l>\ proposing 
a t< ast to i he President < if I he I nit ed Stat es 
which was responded to by the entire audience, 
who remained .-landing while the orchestra plaved 
"The Star Spangled Banner." This was followed 
by a toast to t he ( 'ommonwealt h of Massachusetts, 
which wits responded to by Lieut. <io\. Curtis 
Guild, Jr., who was greeted by enthusiastic and 
prolonged applause. Mr. Guild, who spoke verv 
briefly, said he was there as the representative of 
one who more fitly should respond, but who was 
unavoidably absent Gov. William L. Douglas. 
Mr. Guild narrated several very witty and happy 
anecdote- which provoked much mirth, and I hen 
eulogized the career of Massachusetts. He said 
among many thing- that Massachusetts was proud 
of her men and women, many of whom he said had 
become famous in almosl even state of the 
I 'nion. 

The next speaker of the evening was Acting 
Mayor Daniel A. Whelton, who responded to 

I he toast , "The ( 'it \ of I'.i Stoll." He -aid III 

pa n : 

"Gentlemen, the city of Boston felicitates the 
town of Brookline, 200 years old, 200 vears 
young. 

"The city i I Bo-ion i- proud to be vour muni- 
cipal mother. Mudth River was a good child. 
well brought up. and the lessons which she learned 
during her 7.5 vears oi childhood laid the founda- 
tion lor I hat great noss and glon which to dav vou 
celebrate. If Brookline, Mass., i- t he hall mark of 

clean, wholesome politics and the highest t vpe of 
civic virtue, you have profited by what was 
taught vou 200 years ago." 

One of the brightest speeches of the evening 
was made by James M. Cod man, Jr., of the board 
oi selectmen. In introducing Mr. Codman. Mr. 
Candage spoke of the g I government of Brook- 
line being as enduring a.- the hills. Mr. Codman 
picketl up the allusion and declared that inas- 
much as several of Brookline 's most famous hill- 
had already been graded and either parth or 
wholly removed, nothing was to be considered as 
alt i 'gel her permanent. The next speaker was Mr. 
Samuel J. Elder, who responded to the toast. 
"The Lathes." He said thai he was surprised to 
see thai there were signs of insurrection in the 
celebration, that there was "a counter-move- 
ment," so to -peak. He said thai evidently the 
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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN. 



fu] Town ll:ill still lingers in the minds of those 
wliu were present. From his earliest puree r 



Winthrop, Hon. Robert C. His speech at the dedieath f our own beaut i 

Wixthkop, Hon. Rom in (.'., who was one of 
Brookline's most highly honored fellow citizens, 
was horn in B.:ston Mass., Ma> 12. 1S00. Died he had been soughl i ', ,- to speak on puhli 

\,,\. 16, 1S94. (iraduated from Bi ston Latin- 
School. Graduated from Harvard University in 

1S2S, A. M. Studied law in the office of Daniel 

,,. | ',, ,,.,, t j.-| laid on the Fourth of July, 1S4S, and from his pen 

Mr Winthrop enjoyed the unique distinctii n of <'amc the address read on il -can f the un- 

having kn.avn personally every l'residenl of the \* " ' ' " ' - " f th at monument the twenty-second of 



i iccasions. 

It was from his lips that the i ration came when 
the corner-stone of the national monument was 



United States except Washington and Jefferson. 
h, [S32 lie saw Charles Carroll, the last surviving 
signer of the Declaration of Independence, at his 



February. ISSo. Had he not been ill, this second 
address would have been delivered also bv him. 
The vears between the laving of the corner-stone 



own ho US e in Baltina re, and in ls:«> he visited and th' dedication of the Washington M. numenl 



the last surviving member of the first Senate ol 



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umbered 37. There was a beautiful sentiment 



the United States, who had dined with Washing- '" Mr. Winthrop'* great speed, at the cornet 



t„n (it the dav of his first inauguration, when our "tone laying which may well now be brought 

Constitutional Gover ml was originally organ- «R»in '-efore the eve- of patriotic citizens. "The 

ized and its machinerv set in motion. He was American Constitution." declared Mr. Winthrop, 

ami in eulogy added, "like one ol these wondrous 
rocking stones, retired bv the Druids, which the 



Speaker of the National House of Representatives, 

in the Thirtieth Congress, entered the Whig party 

practically at its birth, and at the early age of 24 finger of a child mighl vibrate to its centre, vet 

m won the attentionandadinirati.nl of his fellow- themight of ananny could not movefr tsplace, 



people as to be chosen a representative in t lit 



our Constitution is so nicely poised that it seems 



Massachusetts Legislature. He served on the to sway with every breath of passion, yet so firm- 
floor onlv three vears. when he was chosen Speak- l> l>aso«l in the hearts and affections of the people 
erof the House' and that office was given to him that the wildest storm- of treas m and fanaticism 
in the two subsequent vears also. break over it in vain." Mr. Winthrop was the 
Few men, indeed, had had such exalted ideas of orator at the inauguration oi the Franklin statue 
the duty of public men as Mr. Winthrop. Soon "' 1 ■-">''> (a statue which he originally suggested); 
after the election of Gen. Harrison to the l'res- at the inauguration of the statue of Gen. Warren, 
idency a vacancv occurred in the B, ston Congres- in IS57; at the unveiling of the Webster statue at 
sional district," Mr. Abbott Lawrence having Central Park, New York, in 1S76, and at the Cen- 
,-esigned Vn'u, all the able Whigs in Boston at '''"'"al celebration in I'm, ston the same year; at 
that time the party selected Mr. Winthrop to the unveiling of I he Prescott statue at Bunker 
represent it. He took hisseat in 1N40. being-then Hill in 1SS1, and at Vorktovvn, Va., on the ncca- 
|, u , :;i years of age Afterward can,,' his elec- «'»n of the centennial of the surrender of Corn- 
t ion as Speaker and il is said t hat even Clav was wallis. October li), 1NS1. While Mr. Winthrop 
not Mr Winthrop's superior as a presiding officer. had vividly painted his historical pictures in all 

In isoo Gov Briggs appointed Mr. Winthrop as these addresses, the greatest valu< is orations 

United States Senator to fill the vacancy occa- «'as in his clear c -option and analysis ol the 

sioned bv Daniel Webster's resignation to bee,, me underlying causes of the events he narrated. 
Mr, Fillmore's Secret an of State. 

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James S. Whitney. 

Whitnkv, J.uiks S.. was born in thai pari of 
I leerfielrl then called "Bloody Brook," im« South 
Deerfield, May H)th, 181 1- He wan son of Step- 
hen Whitney, Esq., formerly of Nelson, X. II . :i 
prominent merchant al Bloody Brook, and a man 
highly respected and esteemed in the community 
in which he lived, lie was the representative 
from Deerfield in the General Courl in the years 
183-1 and 1835. In 1834, he was Monitor of the 
first division of the House and ;i member of the 
• ommittee on Accounts, lie was also a Monitor 
in 1 835, and in the same year, one of the Commis- 
sioners who had charge of the construction of the 
enlargement of the State Lunatic Asylum at 
\\ i ircesl ii 

(Jen. Whitney was also fortunate on his mother's 
side. Her maiden name was Man Burgess. She 
was a daughter of Dr. Benjamin Burgess, who was, 
for a long series of years, the country doctor in 
( loshen, Mass. 

The early education of James S Whitne\ was 
such as he was able to obtain al home from the 
teaching of his parents, who were both well quali- 
fied to instruct and guide him, and in the common 



schools of thai day and this vicinit v. 1 1 does no| 
appear thai he had am advantages be vond these; 
luit he faithfully improved .'ill his opportunities, 
and. with natural abilities of a high order, by close 
application and diligen! study, acquired that 
knowledge which enabled him to discharge in u 
highly creditable manner i lie dul ies of the various 
and important p isitions in which he was placed in 
the course of his active life. At an early age he 
en I e red i lie store of his father, in the capacit \ of a 
clerk, and by his industrious habits, his strict at- 
tention to his duties and his ready tad in dealing 
with customers, .-nun established a good business 
character. In lN-il'. at the age of twenty-one 
years, he became, by purchase from his father, 
the proprietor of the business and carried on the 
same at South Deerfield till about the first of 
January. 1838. when he removed to Conwav. In 
that period of his life, though actively employed 
in his private business, he look a deep interest and 
active part in public affairs, and especially in the 
movement al thai time in winch his father also 
took an efficient part . for the organization, or the 
reorganization of the militia of the Slate, which. 
in the words of a journal of the ( lav, "was in a de- 
plorable condition." lie entered into this work 
with that zeal and energy, and with such good 
judgment and .success as gave him a marked prom- 
inence in military circles, and in 1835, when onlv 
twenty-four years of age, he was honored with an 
election and commission as Brigadier-General of 
the Second Brigade and Fourth Division of Mass 
achusetts Militia. B\ thai title of General thus 
early ami honorably earned and worthilv con- 
ferred, he was known in all the following vears of 
his life. He was an efficient and popular military 
officer. One who well remembers him <avs: "He 
was a superb horseman," and he was never -ecu 
on a poor horse. One interesting incident in his 
military experience is worthy of mention. He 
commanded the infantry escort thai headed the 
procession at the celebration of ('apt. Lothrop's 
battle at South Deerfield, Sept. 30, 1835, and ii is 
said that Hon. Edward Everett, who delivered 
the oration on that occasion and was a candidate 
fur Governor, was so favorably impressed bv his 
soldierly deportment ami the eilicieni performance 
of his duty, that soon after his inauguration as 
Governor and of his own motion he forwarded to 
(Jen. Whitney a commission as Justice of the 
I'eace. The fact t hat t he < leneral qualified by 



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taking and subscribing the oath of office, on the 
10th ilav of May, 1S36, lends to corroborate the 
statement . 

i it'ii Whitney removed from South Deerfield 
aboul the first of January, 1X38, and then engaged 
in business in Conway, in company with his 
brother-in-law, Mr. Anson Shepard, under the 
firm of Shepard & Whitney. The\ soon gained 
an extensive and profitable country trade. There 
are those vet living who remember well thai good 
old-fashioned country store, and the old stove 
around which the good citizens of Con way discussed 
ami set i Ifl in I heiroyy n minds, the most important 
questions and measures affecting the destinies of 
their town, state and count ry, and around which, 
as one who well remembers it has recently said, 
"Selectmen, Assessors and Constables were made 
and unmade." The firm of Shepard A: Whitney 
was in tunc followed by that of Whitney & Wells, 
Mr. ( 'ha ilt- Wells being the junior partner, and 
thai In "Whitney. Wells (V- Co." The last-named 
linn, aside from their store, operated a large fac- 
tory' for i lie manufacture of seamless bags, in 
w Inch I he\ employed a large number of operatives. 
This was one of the most important industries 
tif the town, ami continued until Gen. Whitney 
left i t >ii\\ ay. 

In 1843, he was chosen Town Clerk, and was 
kepi 111 thai office till 1852. That was the only 
town office thai he held, although he was fre- 
quently chosen as agent for the town in important 
matters, and in all cases he was vigilant for the 
interesl s of his const it uents. 

• leu. Whitney represented Conwav in the Legis- 
lature of I Sol, and again in 1X54, The Legisla- 
ture of 1 So 1 was controlled by that memorable 
coalition oi the Democratic and free-soil parties 
of the Slate which placed Charles Sumner in that 
seal in the Senate of the Inited Stales which he 
held till his death in 1 s 7 4 . ami passed manv im- 
portant measures in the line of reform and pro- 
gress. Among those measures may be ment ioned, 
the acl to establish a Board ol Bank Commission- 
ers; an act relating to joint stock companies, 
k now n as the General Corporation law ; an "act to 
provide for the belter security of the ballot," 
known as i he •■Secret ballot " law of 1851 , a law 
quite as effect nal and more simple t han the present 
law for the same purpose; an "act to amend some 
of the Proceedings, Practice and Rules of Evi- 
dence ol the Courts of the Commonwealth;" an 



"acl relating to the calling a Convention of dele- 
gates for the pimp ise of revising the Constitution;" 
an act lo exempt from levy on execution the 
Homestead to the value of $500, of a House- 
holder having a family, known as the Homestead 
Law; an acl to secure to Mechanic- a m I Laborers 
their payment for labor In a lien on Ileal Estate, 
known as the Mechanics Lien Law: and an acl 
providing for the election of Presidential Electors 
In a plurality instead of a majority vote and ex- 
tending the same provision to the election of 
Representatives in Congress, after a failure to 
elect mi t he first t rial. 

In the discussions concerning I hose measures 
and in all the proceedings of the House, Gen. 
Whitney took an active and influential pan. and 
displayed an acquaintance unit public affair-, an 
understanding and appreciation of the true prin- 
ciple- oi legislation and government, and a readi- 
ness and power in debate that placed him among 
the first in ability and influence in a l>od\ which 
comprised among its members such distinguished 
men as Sidney Bart let t. Otis Chi])]), Benjamin R. 
Curtis, Henry J. Gardner, Samuel Hooper. Moses 
Kimball, William Scholller, Xallianiel Sea\er. 
Richard Frothiugham, Junior, .John Mills, Fred- 
erick 0. Prince, Nathaniel Wood, John M. Earle, 
Caleb ( 'ushing, Ensign II Kellogg. Caleb Stetson, 
William Aspinwall, Ezra Wilkinson. Samuel II 
Walley, and others whose name- were well known 
through the state and who participated in the 
debates and proceedings of the House. 

The el eci ion of Charles Sumner to t he Senate of 

the Lniteil States, with which the name of Gen. 

Whitney was at the time so often mentioned, was 
an e\eiii of too much importance and interesl to 
be passed without special notice. Probably no 
election of a Senator in Massachusetts was ever 
attended with more intense feeling and excite- 
ment. Mr. Simmer was exceeedinglv popular 
with the Free-soil party, and in the arrangements 
of t he coal it it hi it was undersl ood that he was to be 
elected I nited Slates Senator for the term which 
began on the 4th of March, 1851. The Hon. 
Roberl C. Winthrop, who had served with honor 
as speaker of the Massachusetts 1 louse of Repre- 
sentatives and of t he House of Representatives of 
Washington, and who was eminently worthy ol 
i he confidence ami support of his part v. was the 
Whig candidal e flic election of Senator was 
then made b\ the concurrent vote of the two 



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branches oi Legislature, wit houl vote in joinl eon- 
\ cm ion. In I lie Senal e I li" ci ialil ii m had I he 
majority and Mr Suniiier was elected on I he lirsl 
ballot, In the House the contest was protracted 
and attended with much excitement. Several 
Democrats refused to vote for Mr. Sumner. ( ien 
Whitney was one of them. He was a Democrat of 
the Jackson school and over had the courage to 
stand by his principles. He was no friend of I lie 
svstem of American slavery, bin he was an earnest 
supporter of the constitution of the I nit cm I States, 
and regarded the agitation ol the slaven question 
in Congress as detrimental to the peace and in- 
terests of the country. He regarded Mr Sumner 
as an anti-slavery agitator, and while he ae- 
quiesced in the coalition in local matters and for 
the purpose ol securing desirable reforms in the 
administration of State affairs, he fell thai he 
could not consistently vote to place an anti- 
slaver \ agitator in i he Senate of i he I nited State* 
and cast his vote for a Democrat, in some twenty 
or more balh il ings. 

In the meantime effi irts were made to convince 
him thai he was mistaken in his views of Mr. Sum- 
ner's character and purposes. He was assured 
thai while Mr. Sumner would not, pending the 
election, make nor permit to be made any pledges 
as to In- I'm ore an inn mi any particular subject or 
question, his course in the Senate would bo that of 
a statesman and nol of an agitator. On this 
point he desired further assurance, and it was 
finally by the efforts of mutual friend so arranged 
thai Mr. Sumner and (len. Whitney should, ap- 
parently by accident, meet in the State Library for 
the purpose of an interview. The meeting took 
place, and, without any express promise or pledge, 
Mr. Sumner assured Gen. Whitney in substance, 
that he was not disposed to act the part of an 
agitator in the Senate, that he was especially in- 
terested in the foreign relations of the country, 
which he had already studied with much care, and 
that he should hope to be in a position in the Sen- 
ate in which he could follow his inclinations in that 
direct ion. 

The result of the interview was reasonably 
satisfactory to (ien. Whitney, but knowing that 
the Democrats of Conway wen- generally opp ised 

tn the elect urn of Mr. Sumner, and had approved 

his own course thus far, he decided to refer the 
matter to them for advice. He accordingly came 
tu Conwav, and a meeting of the Democrats was 



called, at w Inch he slat c I full \ and candidh I he 
I he sit ual ion in i he House U'ler a free con 
lei once, t he \ i lice ol the meet ing was t hat he 
should vote for Mr. Sumner. With this expre 
sum of the sentiments of his constituents, he re- 
t urned In I', .-tun. ( In l he 2 li h of April, l he 
House proceeded to the '-'■'it h ha I hit ; I here was no 
choice, and on a call of I he roll, il appeared ihai 
I he number ol ballots exceeded 1 1\ I w 1 1 I he until 

ber ol" members present. < hi the I'tiih ballot 
Charles Sumner was declared elected 

In Maw I Sol, (ion. \\ 1 1 1 ( r i < ■ \ was appointed 

sheriff of 1'ranLlm county. lie held the office 
a bolll two \ ea fs. 

1 ii Is.Vi, the town of Con wa_\ honored it -elf and 
(len. Whitney by elect oil; hi in as a delegate to the 
convention of delegates of the people for the pur- 
pose ol revising the Constitution of the Common- 
wealth. 

In IS54, October 19, (Ion, Whitney was ap 
pointed Superintendent of the I . S. Armory in 
Springfield, Mass. 

(ien. Whit i m ■ \ continued in charge of the ar- 
mory till the first day of March, I Slit), when he re- 
signed the superintendency, having been called 
to a lugher position. 

On the • 3d of March, I .'.(in, in pursuance of pre 
\ i 1 1 1 1 > arrangements, the officers and armorers ol 
the armory met Gen. Whitney, to present to him a 
testimonial of their respect and esteem. There 
was a full meeting. The testimonial was a ver\ 
elegant set of silver ware, described as follows: 

"A pitcher and line goblet . all lined with gold, 
of original and unique pattern, elaborately orna- 
mented, and altogether the most superb sol of the 
kind ever seen in Springfield. L'pon the pitcher 
was t his inscripl ion : 

"Presented to (ien. .lame,- S. Whitney by the 
officers anil armorers of the I. S. Armory. Spring- 
field, Mass., on his retirement from the superin- 
tendency, fel,. ■J-Jil. ISoU" 

Kadi goblet In ire t he follow ing: 

"(ien, .la me- S, Whitney, from the officers and 
armorers, Feb. 22d. ISOO." 

( )n t he '.H h of Fobruan . I.S(}1 . « len. Whil ney 
was appointed ( 'oiled, .r of I lie I'ort of Boston 

President Buchanan and (Jen. Whitney were 
not particular friend-. The General was nol 
an original supporter of Mr. Buchanan for the 
presidency in IS06, and as n delegate to the 
national convention in that year, at first voted for 



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another candidate. Bui his judicious and suc- 
cessful superintendence of the national armory, 
mi Springfield Hill, had placed him in a position 
in which he could not be hid. It had. in fact, 
given him a national reputation, and when the 
['resident tendered to him, without solicitation or 
expectation on his part, the collectorship of the 
port ill Boston, considerations other and inure 
weighty than regard I'm- his own personal prefer- 
ences induced him to accept the position. The 
appointmenl and acceptance were honorable in 
both parties, and ven few appointments, if anv, 
ever received more general approval. 

(■en. Whitney's administration of the business 
affairs oi the Boston Custom House was efficient 
and satisfactory in the government, as well as to 
all who had direct dealings with i he collector or 
his subordinates, but it was cut short by the suc- 
cess of the Republican party in the election of I860. 
He entered upon the duties of the office about the 
iirsl of March, i860, and was removed very soon, 
probably within i hi rty days after the inauguration 
of President Lincoln, on the II h of March. [861. 

After Ins removal from the collectorship, Gen. 
\\ lniiie\ engaged in business in Bi stem, and soon 
became identified with enterprises of large extent 
and importance He was for some years, and at 
the time of Ins death, president of the Boston 
Water Power Oompam and of the Metropolitan 
Steamship Company, whose steamers formed the 
"outside line" from Boston to New York. 

The facts that Gen Whitney represented Con- 
way in the Legislature of 1851 and 1854, and that 
he was a delegate in the Constitutional Conven- 
tion in 1853, have been mentioned, It is to be 
said further that in 1.849 he was a Democratic can- 
didate in Franklin county for State Senator; 
that in 1852 he wa< one of the Democratic candi- 
dates for president ial electors at large, Col. Charles 
il. Greene, for many years i he well-known editor 
of the Boston Cost, being the other; that in 1856 
he was a delegate to the 1 >emoerat ic National Con- 
vention that nominated .lames Buchanan for 
President ; that in 1860 he was a delegate at large 
to the Democratic National Convention, which 
met at Charlestown, adjourned to Baltimore and 
divided on candidates; that in i hat year he acted 
with those Democrats who supported John C. 
Breckenridge fur President : thai in 1872 he repre- 
sented the first Norfolk district in the State Sen- 
ate: that in ls?ii he was President of the Demo- 



cratic Stale Convention thai nominated Hun. 
Charles Francis Adams for Governor of Massachu- 
setts; and t hat in 1S78 he presided over the Demo- 
cratic State Convention in Faneuil Hall. Boston, 
which Humiliated Hon Josiah G. Abb, ill for 
Governor, in opposition to Hon. B. 1 '. Butler, who 
hail received a nomination from Democrats at 
Worcester. < Mi the last named occasion he made 
an able and power, u] speech which attracted 
much attention. Thai was the last public effort 
of his life, but I here was nothing in il nor in his 
personal appearance heart) and vigorous thai 
indicated that he was very near the end ul his 
earthly career. He was active in Ins attention to 
his extensive business interests in Boston till and 
mi the 24th day of October, 1878. On that day- 
he had. in the forenoon, been in consultation with 
other gentlemen concerning the affairs ul the 
Boston Water Power Company, in which labor 
he applied himself very closely. He was in his 

customary health at i n. made a call al the 

headquarters of the Dei Tatic Stale Committee, 

and manifested his usual interest in the progress 
of the pending political campaign. Later in the 
afternoon he heard of the sudden death of Mr. 
.lames L. Thorndyke, a friend and business asso- 
ciate. Still later, he met a friend on the si reel to 
whom he said that he had intended In go to the 

Democratic meeting in Faneuil Hall that evening, 
but had just In 'a rd of the death of Mr. Thorndyke 

and ci included to go home and keep quiet, instead 

of subjecting himself to t he excitement of a p iliti- 
eal assemblage. He said. "I am getting to be an 
cild man and perhaps belter lake care of myself." 
The two separated shortly before li o'clock. Gen 
Whitney took a car mi his way in his home in 
Brookline, where he had resided since his removal 
from Springfield in 1860. When near I he end of 
I he car route be became faint and was assisled 
from the car In a store near al hand While 
crossing the si reel he asked that aid be sent fur. 
Doctors were al once called, bill before they ar- 
rived life wa- extinct. Heart disease was the 
cause of his death. 

()n Monday, October 2,8, private funeral ser- 
vices were held at his house, followed by public 
services in the Harvard church, every seal in 
which was occupied by his friends and associates 

Gen. Whitney was also eminently happy in 
his family and private relation. He married 
earlv in life and "his home was a charming and 



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Francis William Lawrence. 



BRi H )KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

happy place for him." At his death he lett a of the time being chairman of the board. He was 

widow, two sun.-- anil three daughters. chairman of the Brookline Park Commission for 

Hon. William C. Whitney, deceased, was an run- twelve years; was pro\ ost -marshal with the rank 

iicni member of the legal profession in New \ oik oi Captain, and assistanl adjutant-general with 

city, and secretary of the navy during the ad- the rank of Lieutenanl Colonel on the staff of the 

ministration of President Cleveland, and Henry Second Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 

\l Whitnev, Esq., of Brookline. his militia service covering a period of six vears. 

President Garfield appointed him a member of 
t he I ma I'd of visitors to t he I . S. Naval Acadenn 
at Annapolis, Md., in 1881. In 1868 he was made 

Lawrenck, Francis William, Selectman of •' vestryman of the Church of Our Savior, Long- 
Brookline for eleven years; chairman of the wood, and also served as treasurer of the Church 
Brookline Park Commission; twelve years vestry- Corporation 187S-'80. He was junior warden 
man; treasurer and warden of the Church of Our l885-'93 and held the position of sennit' warden at 
Savior, Longwood, from 1868; director, clerk and ,1|( ' time of his death. He was a stock-holder, 
treasurer of the Brookline Gas Light Company; director, clerk and treasurer of the Brookline Gas 
president of the Brookline National Bank, etc., Light Company; one of the incorporators and a 
was born in Brookline, Mass., November 20, 1839, director of the Brookline National Bank, and its 
son of William Richards and Susan Coombs president 1896-1903; president of the Globe (ias 
(Dana) Lawrence; grandson of Amos and Sarah Light Company of Boston; director of the lp- 
(Richards) Lawrence; greal grandson of .Major *vieh Mills and of the Merimack Chemical Corn- 
Samuel and Susanna (Parker) Lawrence and a de- pany.and served as a trustee of several private 
cendatit from John Lawrence, the emigrant who trusts. His philanthropic work included the pres- 
came from Wissett, England, to Watertown, idency of the Boston Dispensory; the vice-presi- 
Massachusetts Bay Colony, about 1635. He was dencyofthe New England Conservatory of music ; 
a pupil at Lawrence Academy Groton, Mass., trusteeship of the St. Luke's Home for Convales- 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and at private cents in Roxbury; of the Trustees of Donations, 
schools in Bcston, and Paris, Prance. and of the Boston Episcopal Charitable Society. 

He matriculated at Harvard College with the He built a summer home at Bar Harbor, Maine, in 

Class of 1861, hut left after completing his junior 1882, and wasan active worker in the parish of St. 

\ear to study medicine at the Portland Medical Savior at Bar Harbor, being a member of the fi- 

School and at Harvard Medical School, leaving nancial committee. He also inspired the forma 



Harvard in 1862 to join the Massachusetts Edu 



ca- 



tion of the Kelio Valley Chili and of the Mount 
tional Commission at Port Royal, South Carolina, Desert Reading Room. Mr Lawrence died in 

a- surgeon. He was subsequently appointed act- Pin.!. 

ihg assistant surgeon in the C. S. Volunteer army 

stationed af St. Helena Island. S. ('..and while Chief Justice, Albert MaSOIl. 

there purchased a large plantation and cultivated 
sea island cot ton. In 1865 he sold t he plantation 
ami returned to Boston and the following year 
settled in Longwood, Brookline. He was married 
January 27, 1863, to Lucilla, elder daughter of t he 
Hon. Charles Russell and Martha Ann (Jackson) 
Train; granddaughter of i he Rev. Charles and 
Hepzibal (Harrington) Train and a defendant 
from John Train (1610-1681) who came from Enp 
land to Watertown. Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 
1635, taking passage on t he ship Susan and I:' Hi //. 
Francis William Lawrence was a public spirited 
citizen, as attested by hi- services of eleven years 
as selectman of the town of Brookline, during pari 

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Mason, Albert, Chief Justice, was born in 
Mi Id lei hi in. November 7, 1836. Admit ted to t he 
bar iii February, 1860. Served in the Thirty- 
eight h Regiment , Massachusel t - Volunteers, 1862- 
1865, as Second Lieutenant, Captain and \ i 
taut Quartermaster. Chairman Selectmen of 
Plymouth for several years. Member House of 
Representatives 1873-1874. Appointed to the 
Board oi Harbor and Land Commissioners in 
[874. Appointed Justice of the Superior Court 
in February, 1882, and became Chief Justice in 
1890. Died m Brookline, January 2, 1905. 



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Henry Melville Whitney. 

Whitni i . Hi M-n Mi i.vi i i.i , was born Oct. -'-'» 
1X39, al Conway, Franklin county, Mass. His 

fat her, t lie late < len. .lames S. VVliil nev, was ; Id 

war horse (if Democracy in the days before the 
( 'i\ il \\ :ir, t hough he showed his independence by 
settling with his vote as a member of the Legisla- 
ture that Charles Si n unci' should go to the Cnited 
States Senate. 

The father was a Conway merchant, with manu- 
facturing interests. The boy was sent to the Con- 
way schools, and afterward to Williston Seminary. 
\\ hen he was read\ to go into business his father 
had removed to Springfield as superintendent of 
the Armory. Henry found ;i place as office boy in 
ilic Conway bank at spin a year. The second 
year he got a Kin per cent, increase, and the third 
\car was raised to s:;ui). 

"I can't remember," he says, "whether my 
father ever helped me out with am money besides 
what I earned or not. [know [ boarded with the 
cashier of the bank and did some odd jobs for 
him." 

In 1860 he c: • In Boston and entered the 

Rank of Redemption a- a clerk. Sunn afterward 
he took a place in a naval recruiting office, and 
when his fa i her was made collector of the port of 
Boston, he entered the Custom House. The fol- 
lowing year he went to W» York and set up for 



himself in the firm of Whitney tV - Hathaway, con- 
ducting a general shipping business. 

Meantime General Whitney, the father, had e 
tablished the Metropolitan Steamship Company 
In |S65 the son returned to Boston as agent of 
I his company. The fat her dying in lS(iS, t he sun 
in INTO secured control of the company and re 
mained its president until a -hurt tune ago, when 
he Sold mil all his stuck and ret ired. 

Hi- first big improvement for the city of Boston 
was the Beacon streel boulevard. His father's 
dwelling was at Beacon and Harvard street-, 
where Mr. Whitney's mother st ill resides. Ben- 
con street was a lane It appealed to Whitne\ 
that the man who made that alley into a boule- 
vard, with a street ear line in the middle of it. 
would nut only confer a tremendous blessing mi 
posterity, but incidentally make a fortune if he hap- 
pened in own the adjacent land. He formed the 
West laid band Co., which raised S1.00U.000, 
bought the land and sent Mr, Whitney into a 
Brookline town meeting to demonstrate that if he 
was willing tu make the improvement cheap for 
the town as chief abuttor, nobody else ought to 
complain. Bretty nearly everybody in sight did 
complain, but it went through, so far as Brookline 
w as concerned. 

The trouble came on the stretch ni lane within 
the Boston limits. The project was resisted in 
the city, and the Metropolitan street ran 
which would lay its t racks on t he new boulevard . 
if it went through, made such a light thai Mr. 

Whitney said: "There's only one way tu get rid 
of these railways: we'll have to buy them all." 
And he did. The West laid Land Coinpam < 
quired controlling interests in the Metropolitan, 
the Highland, the Middlesex, the South Boston 
and the Cambridge street railways, and consoli- 
dated I hem as t he \\'e.-i End street railway 

The Beacon street boulevard was finally laid 
nut. and Boston had the basis of the most mag- 
nificent parkway system in the world. 

It was characteristic of Henn \l Whitney that 
in drawing the charter of the West End Si reel 
Railway Company he peered into the Inline and 
foresaw that the surface lines were never going to 
suffice fur all I he traffic thai was In be. In that 
document permission was expressly given the com- 
pany to build and operate, under certain restric 
t inns, a subway under Boston Common. This 
was fought like almost every one of the remarka- 



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ble Whitnej prophecies, and il was nol until years 
later t hat the ] pie had to yield t o cither manage- 
ment what it had refused t ii him. 

In a trip South Mr. Whitney happened to see 
one of the earlier short-line trolley installations. 
He saw at once thai electricity was the motive 
power nf the future for city traction, and came 
back tn Boston resolved to get thai imprcTN ement. 
People said he was crazy. Others said he desired 
t ii elect rocute his fellow -cil izens. 

lie went right ahead. The consolidation made 
a system on such a scale it was possible to t rv ex- 
periments which iin .-mall line could have afforded. 
It was all pioneer work, anil involved an immense 
amount of labor and expense. Many cities sent 
agents to see w hat Whitney was up to. 

The next meat Whitney enterprise was the coal 
business in Canada. He organi ed the Dominion 
Coal ( 'ompany, \\ Inch cum I lined a large number of 
mines uii Cape Breton Island. The product was 
sold for manufacturing purposes chiefly along the 
St. Lawrence River. In the winter that river is 
fro en and the men had no work. Mr. Whitney 
conceived the idea of gh ing the men work the year 
round and boosting international trade besides, 
li\ selling coal in Boston. A fleet of colliers was 
chartered, and coal carried to this port. It de- 
veloped that the kind of coal mined at Sidney was 
more profitably relieved of it- gas, leaving a mar- 
ketable coke; -11 Mr. Whit ney went to the Legisla- 
ture fur a charter fur what are now known as the 
New England Gas & Cuke Company, and the 
Massachusetts Pipe Line Company, to sell gas tn 
the district gas companies of Boston and cuke in 
the public. Here again he was bitterly opposed. 
Before the Dominion Compam was organized, t he 
product was 800,000 tons. N'ow it is 3, 500,000. 

The next commercial company was the Sub- 
marine Signal, which make- and sell- appliances 
based mi an invention u<i Elisha Cray. Winn 

attached tn \e-sels at sea the signals record the 

approach nf passing vessels, or nearby obstruc- 
tions, and prevent collisions Mr. Whitney re- 
tired from this company. 

Still another enterprise which has been set 
down in hi- credit a-a pure work nf philanthropy . 
but which he protests was nothing but straighl 
Li i-i in--, was t he transact inn by which t he 1 '>< i-t i >u 
Chamber of Commerce acquired without paying 
for ii the site on which it- building -lands. The 
land belonged originally to two wharf companies, 



t he India and t he ( 'ent nil. The India wharf peo- 
ple desired to deed over their half for nothing ex- 
cepting to get back the value with interest from 
sales of adjacent land. The Central Wharf Com- 
pany refused to du likewise. Mr. Whitney came 
forward, bought the whole property and gave the 
( 'hamber it- site. 

Hotel Beaconsfield, Brookline, is another of his 
enterprises. The only other commercial concern 
with which he i- now connected is the American 
Asl ie-i os I 'onipanj . 

In the course of liis dealings in Canada Mr. 
Whitney had occasion to make many acquaintan- 
ces among the people of that country, and became 
impressed both with their line qualities as asso- 
ciates and with the unparalleled resources of their 
new land nf promise. When he had disposed of 
hi- interest in the Dominion Coal Company he 
look i he time to renew earlier studies of t he t rade 
relations between the two peoples, and became 
thoroughly imbued with the idea thai in Canada 
lies the opportunity fur \ew England to re.ua in all 
that great financial prestige which was formerly 
hers in building the railways and cities of t he West . 

"The artificial wall, the tariff, which obstructs 
I rade. ought 1 1 > come dow 11 ." he says. He let it be 
known tu his friends that he stood ready tn give 
nf his time and means to help that fight. 

The President nf tin' ('hamber of Commerce, 
which hasbeen doing things tn further reciprocity 
for maii\ year-, about this time resigning, Mr. 
Whitney, was chosen his successor. 

He immediately decided that the way tu get a 
new tariff law was tu notify the law makers 
t hrough t he ballot box i hat t he people of Massa- 
chusetts wanted it. Since then lie has been mak- 
ing a colli nuiiiii- fighl nil t hat line. 

Mr. Whitney's family life ha- been peculiarly 
happy. The son nf a mother w hu at s "> find- her 
-on one of the most distinguished citizens of the 
State, he married in 1869 Miss < ireen. daughter of 
Admiral Joseph L. Green of Brookline, and has 
been blessed with five children. Miss Ruth, Mrs. 
.1 P Gardiner, Miss Laura. James S.. now a Har- 
vard sophomore, and Miss Josephine. 

flic \\ hitneys live in Brookline. with a summer 

In une al < 'i iha--el 

lie has a -mall but tine stud ui riding and driv- 
ing horses. These he never races or exhibits. He 
i- fond or riding and indulges in that sport much 
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He is pres ' asset Goli Club, but 

this is •■ Taken seriously. He has never 

held a stick in his hand. His usual means of pro- 
pulsii n about the city is an automobile. He has 
, nl\ been ti i Europe once. 

11. is a member i :' the Algonquin. I'., sti n Art 
and Country clubs. 

He has friends rigs 

he older em; reet railway 

.wiin -peak < I I h great respect and 

n, to the bus • n v\ it h w hi ini he is ] 

lar h\' ! ■ ■ i fellowship and 

making 1 feel that he is 

iii him. 
M. Whitney is the man oi the hour. He 

public 
He - a clear-headed, earnest advi rate of 

New El . 

.. 2 Sev, 

ghts of 

New Ei sdai capital and 

rable sei ■ luntrv. 

Augustus Lowell. 

- ■ ■ ■ ifacl urer. wa- 

in ni in Bi ston. Mass tsi tts. January 15. 1S30; 
■ John Amory 179S-1SS1 and Elizabeth 
I Put nam 1 . grandson 1 769-1841 i 

and Rebecca Am r\ Lowell Judge 

Putnam; t s andson 
of .Indue John 1 1743- - - - Higginsoi 

_ ■ • • _'• t grai ' • he K.-'. . John 

1704-1767 ir I I 'hanfrey i Lov 

great. ia - Ebenezi 1675-171 1 

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of John i 1629- 1 694 
and 11. ■ -■ 

jreat, great, grandson of John Lowell 
.■-.-- n England, in 1595. mat ried i 
mpanied his parents Percival 
and Ri '-vie or Lowell to Amei 

f thi 

■ Newbury, M - tsetts Kay Colony. in 

639 The Li wells in the I - tes - 

i ,f Xori ' heir ancesti irs pi 

accompanied W Duk f Normandy to Eng- 

1066 • ■ . ly "Lowle" 

5 fort graphy 

enturies i i 1830- 

19(11 i In ed with 1 t I he ancest ral home 



in Roxbury and was a - - d to ride with his 
! - :. every morning in order to attend 
■ n Latin School preparatory to entering 
11' I ( 

_ lated at Han a i S 
B.. 1S50. A. M.. IS53. He accompanied his father 
to Europe in 1S50, and travelled in £ 
and Germany in c< ship with his 

mate Edm i I Lit oil B es in 1S51 
with him ti i m the autui 

year. He erk in the mi if 

Bullard and Lee. who were East India Merchants 
in B ars 1852-53 and he was 

then sent to Lowell. Mass . where ' 

Cotton M - conducted by his 
fat her. and I hus nbtaii i act ical knowh 

themanufacturing of cotton goods. In January, 

J. M. Beebe, M - 
A- Co.. B June 1. 1S54, I i 

to Kathi 

f the Hot \ Eat herine 

became officially connected with tl ' n Mills 

at Lawrence and I India tr; de, 

in parti - Franklin II St< rey 1 1 

inEun 64-66. where he travelled with his 

family fi thi enefit of Mrs. Lowell's health, and 
on his ret urn ti i Bi isti m he i 

■ \ here he 

a ve much I 

He ag 
the cares i manufacturing I added 

I 
He was treasurer of the Boot! Cotton M 

the execul 
of the Massachusetts H - Life Insurance 

• : ent Ins 

thi Bostoi Gas Light Co. : 
tn - irer and p Manu- 

facturing Company: presidei U ■ 

setts Mills in Georgia. Massachusetts i 
Mills, Pari: c M - Boi tt < Mills Lowell 

• ty. Lowell Mae! - G n Iron 

i Hi -...- 

- \1 klli sex Company. Lawrence 
Mills. Lowell Manufacturing Compai 

Bank. Cranberry Iron Company. Ply- 
mouth! 'ordageComj d as a trustee in 
the Union Trust Company of \"< Vork 

His public service included a many years 
trusteeship ol the Mass I d Ear In- 



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firmary, the Boston Museum of Fine Ails, ami a 
single term as a member of the Boston School Com- 
mittee. On the death of his fal her in 1881 , he suc- 
ceeded a,- the trustee oi the Lowell Institute 
which institution experienced great prosperity un- 
der his able management. He was vice president 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 
member of the corporation of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology from its organization up 
tn 1883, and a member of t he executive committee 
from 1' S3 in 1901. Hi- son Percival Lowell pre- 
pared a memoir oi his father which was printed in 
i In- proceedings of t he American Academy of Arts 
ami Sciences, Vol. XXXVII, he brings out the 
leading traits in Mr. Lowell's character m these 
words. 

"Three qualit ies he possessed to an unusual de- 
gree; will, ability ami integrity. * * * * 
He was noted for his determination. To his lot, 
in consequence, fell many necessary ami thankless 
tasks. He likewise escaped main - empty honors, 
for u here In 1 went he worked. 

"Xo one ever thought of proferring him a p si 
merely 'honorus causa.' For people knew that in 
gettinghimthey got, not a figurehead, but a man 
who was certain to make himself felt ; not because 
he t ried to do SO, but because it was in him tn do it." 
Tin- children of Augustus and [Catherine 
(Bigelow) Lowell , were : Percival, born March 13, 
1S55; Alilmtt Lawrence, born December 13, 
L856; married June 20, l^T'.t tn Anna Parker 
Lowell, daughter of George Lowell and Man 
Ellen (Parker) Lowell. Katherine, born N'ovem- 
ber 27, 1858, married December 5, 1882 at 
Brookline, to Alfred Roosevelt son of James 
Alfred and Elizabeth Emlen Roosevelt of New 
York and cousin german to Theodore Roosevelt, 
President of the United State-. Mr. Roosevelt 
died in ls'.i] and Mrs. Roosevelt married T. J. 
Bowdker in Dec. 1903. Elizabeth, born February 
'_'. 1862, married at Brookline June 9, 1.88S to 
William Lowell Putnam: Roger, born February 
2, IS62, died August 31.1863; May, born May 1. 
1870, died same day; Amy, born in Brookline 
February 9, 187-1 

Mrs. Lowell died April 1, 1895, and her youngest 
child Miss Amy Lowell became mistress of the home 
and after the death of her fal her still continued to 
reside in the Lowell homestead in that beautiful 
town. Augustus Lowell died at Ins home in 
Brookline, Mass., June 22, 1901. 




William Whitman. 

Whitman, William, has beena cit i Massa 

chusel t s for nearly fifty years. 

He is a son of John Whit man and a descendant 
in the eighth generation of John Whitman, who 
came from England prior to 163S and settled at 
Weymouth, near Bi ston. Hi- great great grand- 
father, also named John Whitman, w a - born in 
Massachusetts, and weni to \"ov:i Scotia to take 
possession of the fruitful lands of Acadia. Mr. 
Whitman is of old Massachusetl - nncest r\ lli- 
motlier was Rebecca Cutler, a direct descendant 
of Ebenezer Cutler, a conspicuous loyalist, whose 
attachment to the name of King George was the 
reason of his banishment during the war oi the 
Revolution, and of his settlement in Halifax. V 
va Scot ia .in 1 778. 

William Whit man was born at Hound Hill, May 
9th, 1842, lie -petit the early years of his child- 
h 1 1 here and in I he neighboring town of Annapo- 
lis being brought up in the Church of England 
faith and acquiring the rudiments of education in 
■i small country school, and at the Anna; 
Acadenn .and through the t raining of his father's 



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house At the age of eleven, however, his school of mill architecture in the world. They have 

days wei'e over, and circumstances compelled him a capacity for consuming 1,250,000 pounds oi 

to starl out and make his own way in the world. wool weekly, equivalent to the fleeces of 33,000 

He acquired early a g I legible hand-writing, an sheep daily. While wool is t he principal material 

accomplishment which will never he out of date of manufacture, yet the cotton mills of the 

in business. The early age al which he was corporation consume annually 12,000 bales of 

thrown upon his own resources developed in him cotton. 

that self-reliance which lias been our of his most The recapitulation of these farts is necessary in 
conspicuous qualities in later life. He left home, any sketch of Mr. Whitman's life, because the 
May 13th, 1854, to take a position in the office of greater pari of his business life is measured by 
a wholesale dry guilds store in St. John, New this period of development of the Arlington Mills, 
Brunswick. He was dissatisfied with the limited under his management and by the corresponding 
opportunities of thai city, and two years later period of development in t lie worsted industry of 
came tn Boston, and secured a position as entry the lulled States, to which he has largely con- 
clerk in the firm of James M. Beebe, Richardson tributed. Much of the growth of the Arlington 
iV Co., successors to .lames M. Beebe, Morgan & Mills and of the general worsted industry has been 
Co. He remained with that house eleven vears, in fields which were untouched when Mr. Whit- 
iii)i i 1 the firm was dissolved. man firs! devoted his energies to the worsted 

In 1807 Mr. Whitman became associated with manufacture. The wonders worked by maehin- 

1!. M. Bailey >V Co. as Treasurer of t he Arlington er\ in our modern i m lust ries are in. lira ted by t he 

Woolen Mills, of which Mr. Bailey was at the time tan that the man whose mind has fur so many 

President, and his firm the selling agents Two years controlled the operation of the Arlington 

vears later Mr. Whit man became dissatisfied wit h Mills can remember the time when the clothing oi 

the management of the nulls and resigned his po- his family and of the community in w Inch he lived 

sitioii as Treasurer. He bought an interest in a was woven on the hand loom, and the yarn from 

Woolen mill at Ashland, New Hampshire, and which it was woven was spun on the old-fashioned 

there devoted himself to the manufacture of g Is spinning w heel. 

on his own account. But, six months later, the During the last ten years. Mr. Whitman has in- 

Arlington Mills were re-organizod. and Mr. Whit- fluenced the construction of new mills in Massa- 

maii was asked to resume the position which he chusetts, in which he acts as managing director. 

had resigned. In 1895 and 1902 the Whitman Mills were built, 

|'r 1X67, — with the exception of this brief and in 1903 the Malioinel Mills, both m the city 

interval until the present tune. Mr. Whitman of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The former has 
has been continuously associated with the Arling- a capitalization of SI. 500,000, and is equipped 
ton Mills. — until 1902 as Treasurer, and since with 132.000 spindles and 3,400 looms used in the 
that dale as President. lie ha- been I he chief manufacture of cotton cloths; while the latter, 
factor in the development of that establishment with$S00, 000 capital, has 54,000 spindles, its pro- 
I'rom a small mill with limited capital and poor dud being confined to cotton yarns. Each null 
equipment into one of I he largest nulls of I he kind is a model of a modern American mill, 
in New England, if not in the world. Mr. Whit- In 1887, while still acting as Treasurer of the 
man's energy and foresight have enabled the mills Arlington Mills, Mr. Whitman became a member 
io anticipate and to keep pace with the changes of the firm of Harding, Colby & Co., of Boston and 
which have taken place in manufacturing indus- New York, commission merchants, who were at 
tries during this long period, and so to adapt their the tune selling agents of the mills. Two years 
resources and methods to meet them as to gain later the firm was dissolved by the death of Mr. 
unusual benefits. During his connection with Colby, and Mr. Whitman then became the manag- 
i he milk-, the capitalization has grown from ing partner in the firm of Harding. Whitman & 
$150,000 to $5,000,000 and the number of em- Co . which succeeded it. The firm has offices in 
plovees from 300 to 0,000. The mills, which are the leading cities of the country, and it- growth 
all within one yard, contain more than sixty acres has been on the same scale with t hat of t he A rl ing- 
ot' Hour space, ami are among the finest specimen- ton Mills. 

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lie has for many years been a prominent mem- 
ber of the National Association of Wool Manu- 
facturers, He was honored with the presidency 
of the Association in 1XN8 and was re-elected each 
year until in 1S9 I the stress of his business duties 
compelled him to retire. After an interval of ten 
years, during which he served upon the Executive 
Committee, he was again chosen President in I !>u 1 
and was re-elected in Kill."}. Mr. Whit man is also 
a member of The X. E. Vi tton Mfrs. Association. 

( )n the reorgani; at ion of the directorate of The 
Equitable Life Assurance Society, Mr. Whitman 
was in June, 1005, elected ;i director as a represen- 
tative i f policy-holders of the Society. 

While he has never held public office , he has al- 
ways been identified with the Republican partv, 
and has exerted a large influence upon public 
affairs, especially as related to industrial econo- 
mics and the trade and I a riff of this country. lie 
is an acknowledged authority in tariff matters, 
particularly in connection with the manufacture 
of woolens, and his advice has frequenth been 
sought upon the wisdom and effect of proposed 
tariff legislation. Wide and thorough study as 
well as large personal experience have given 
weight to his views; and have enabled him, on 
many occasions, by speech and brief, to render 
valuable service to the textile manufacturers i I 
this country. He has labored indefatigably for 
I he building up of the commerce and indust ries of 
Massachusetts and the count n at large, lie has 
prepared and published papers on economic sub- 
jects which have attracted marked attention and 
have been widely circulated. Among them are: 
"Free Raw Materials a- Related to .New England 
Industries", "Free Coal, Would it Give New 
England Manufacturers Cheaper Fuel?", "Some 
Reasons why Commercial Reciprocity is Imprac- 
ticable", "Objections to Reciprocity on Constitu- 
t ional and I 'tact ical < Irounds. " 

He belongs to several clubs and societies, such 
as the Arkwright Club. American Academy of 
Political and Social Science (life member), Boston 
V. M. C. C. (life member), Bostonian Society, 
Bunker Hill Monument Association, Chamber of 
Commerce, Commercial Club. Country Club, 
1 astern Yacht Club, Home Market Club. Middle- 
sex Club. Massachusetts Club, Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society (life member), Manufact- 
urers' Club, Philadelphia. X. E. Historic Geneal- 
ogic Society, Republican Club of Massachusetts, 



Society of \rts, and the I'n ion Club, but his ta le 
are domestic and he finds hi- chief happiness in 
his home. 

Mr. Whitman was married on the lilth of 
January, Is6">, to Jane Dole Hallett. She wa- 
ll rn in Boston, but is a descendant of distin- 
guished loyalist families which left New York in 
17' •> at the close of the [{evolutionary War and 
settled at St. John, N'ew Brunswick. Mr. and 
Mrs. Whitman have had eight children, of whom 
four - ins and I hive da light ers a re li\ ins. 




Charles Sprague Sargent. 

S \ia. i. vi , Cii \i;i i sSpif \i;i i , botanist .dendrolo- 
gist. director of the Botanic Garden of Harvard 
I "niversity and Arnold Arboretum, and professor 
of Arboriculture from IS7o was bom in Boston. 
Mass., April 24, l! II. son of Ignatius and 
Henrietta (Gray) Sargent; grandson of Ignatius 
and Sarah (Stevens) Sargent and of Samuel and 
Man (Brooks) Grav; great grandson of Daniel 
and Mary Turner Sargent : great, great grandson 
of Col. Epes and Catherine (Osborn) Sarget 
great, great . great . grandson of William ami Mary 



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(Duncan) Sargent and great, great, great, grand- trustee of the Boston Museum of Pine Arts; 

son of William and .Mary (Epes) Sargent. trustee and president of the Massachusetts Socie- 

William Sargent (1606-1675) the emigrant ty for Promoting Agriculture; trustee of the 

came from Exeter, England, to Agawam, Massa- Massachusetts Horticultural Society; member of 

chussetts Bay Colony, about Hi'-'-"), where he re- the National Academy of Science, American 

ceiveda grant of a tract of land April, lii.'!:i. He Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philo- 

also appears to ha ve lived in Newberry, Hampton, sophical Society. St. Louis Academy of Science. 

Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts Bay honorary member of the Scottish Agricultural 

Colony. Charles Sprague Sargent's father was a Society, of the Deutsche Dendrologisehe Gessell- 

banker and railroad director, and resided first in schaft and of the Royal Horticultural Society of 

Boston and subsequently in Brookline, where the England; foreign member of the Societe Nationale 

sun was brought up and was prepared for college d'Agriculture de F ranee and of the Linna?an So- 

at private schools. piety of London; corresponding member of the 

He was graduated at Harvard, A. B. IS62, and Soeiete Central Forestiere de Belgique; Associate 

the same year entered the military service of the member of the Societe Royale de Botanique de 

("nited States as lieutenant and aide-de-camp on Belgique, ami a regular member of the Societe 

the headquarters staff of tin' Department of the National d'Horticulture de Prance and of the So- 

Gulf, and he remained in the service as a staff ciete Botanique de France. His club affiliations 

officer up to August, 1S65, when he was must ered were as a mem her of the St . Botolph Club of 1 ln>- 

out, having attained the brevet rank of Major. ton. the Country Club of Brookline, and the Cen- 

He was professor of horticulture at Harvard tury Association of New York. Mr. Sargent 

University as successor t" Francis Parkman edited Garden and Forest (1889-97) and is the 

1872-74; director of the Botanic Garden, as author of: "Catalogue of Forest Trees of North 

successor to Asa Gray Fisher; Professor of Natu- America" (1S80); English translation of "Prun- 

ral History 1S73-79; director of t he Arnold Ar- ing of Forest and Ornamental Trees" (1X81); 

boretum In 'in 1S72, and Arnold Professor of Arbo- "The \Y Is of t he F nited St tiles" ( 1885) ; "Silva 

riciilt ure from 1879, the chair having been estab- of North America" 14 vols., 740 plates, (1891- 
lished that year under the will of James Arnold l902);"Forest Flora of Japan" (1894); "Trees 
who died in 1872. He was married November 29, and Shrubs" vol. 1. (1902-1905); "Manual of 
1873. to Mary Allen, daughter of Andrew and Trees of North America" (1905). He also edited 
Mary (Allen) Robeson of Tiverton. R. F, and the the scientific papers of Asa Gray (1889), and pre- 
fix e children born of this marriage are now li\ inc.-. pared vol. IN of the "Filial Reports of t he Tent h 
He served t he town of Brookline as trustee of t he Census "( 1S85). 
Walnut ( 'emeterv from ls7">. and as park commis- 
sioner from 1880 Hon - Samuel Sewall. 

He served as a special agent of t he Tenl h ( 'en- Si w m.l. S wt i hi, .Chief Just ice of the Province of 
mi-. 1879-S5, tn investigate the forests and forest Massachusetts Bay, was born in England, March 
wealth of the Fnited State-: as chairman of the 28, [652. Came to New England in 1661. Mem 
commission appointed by the Governor of New ber of the Council under the Proxincial charter, 
York in 1884 to recommend a plan for the care of 1692-1725. One of the Assistants under the 
the Adirondack forest; as chairman of the com- Colonial charter, and ex-officio a Judge of the Su- 
mission appointed by the National Academy of preme Court. Appointed Judge of Superiot 
Science in 1S96, to prepare a plan for the preserva- Court in 1692. and Chief Justice in 1718. Chosen 
t ion and management of the forests of the Nat ion- in 1699 one of the Commissioners of the Socict\ in 
til domain : and he planned t he Jarauf collect ion of England for t he Propagat ion of the Gospel in New 
known woods in the American Museum of National England. Sometime Resident Fellow, afterw a rd 
History. New York, 18S0-1900, tin- collection one of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College 
being illustrated by life size water colors by Mrs. ][,. home in Brookline embraced -"oil acre.-. ex- 
Sargent. He wa- a director of the Boston ami tendingfrom Harvard Street to Charles River, the 
Albany Railroad from 1880; vice-president of t he house being near the present site of Sears Chapel. 
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company ; Died Januan I. 1730. 

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Ginery Twichell. 

Tw icnKi.i.. Gin - born in At In .1 . Massa- 

chusetts, Augusl 2(3. ISlI.n son of Francis and 

A I sixteen he left school and entered the employ 
of a local merchant, and three years later took 
e of 1 he -i age In:' 1 i '""in I iarre to IVm cester 
Iiv patience, and strict devotion to the interests 
in his charge he soon became a partner and in 
fifteen years became sole o\\ tier of this and se\ era] 
additional lines which required the use of over two 
hundred horses. In 1S40 Mr. Twichell performed 
:i remarkable feat which illustrates his indomita- 
ble energy as well as i he n ■ . iri.se of t he 
newspaper pre--. The leading newspapers of 
New York were eager to secure despatches ex- 
pected i" arri\'e at Boston by the foreign steam- 
1S46. The Xew Vork Herald 
1 to carry its nun despatches. The Tri- 
bune and other papers, being excluded, made ar- 
rangements with Mr. Twichell who was obliged 
to use ■ stead < if steam p >wer for m >st i ii 
the distal ce He could obtain an engine to run 
from Bosti >n to Worcester only on condition of its 
fifteen n 'hind the Herald's train. 



From Worcester to Hartford, sixty-six miles, he 
nde on horseback through drop snow in three 
hours and twenty minutes. From Hartford to 
New lla\rii l'\ railroad, and from Now Haven to 
\'i \\ Vork. seventy-six miles, bj horses. reaching 
the latter city in season tort he print ing of the de~ 
- pat rlic-, before the arrival of t hose of the Hera Id. 
1 his remarkable feat of horsemanship was com- 
memorated by an engraving entitled. "The 1 n- 
ri vailed Express Rider." 

In IS4S he was appi inted assistant superinten- 
dent of the Bi st on & Worcester R. R and in 1849 
was superintendent, which position he held until 
ISo7, when he became its president He moved to 
Brookline in 1S.50 and was a prominent figure in 
the si rial and political life of Brookline taking a 
kindly interest in local affairs. He prided him- 
self on never failing to vote. He did his part in 
sen ice to the Union during the Ch ii War. In- note- 
worthy public service being a special trip by 
steamboat from Washington to N'ew Vork in 
April, 1N61, car.ying the foreign despatches con- 
cerning the blockade, and it is said, that, to the 
timely arrival of these despatches, much weight 
was given by the Alabama claim- commission 

Ho remained president of t he Boston & Worces- 
ter II R. until his election to Congress in 186(3. 
He served in three Congresses from IS66 to LS72. 
In INTO ho became president of the A. T. & S. F. 
R 1! . . t In 'ii a road of only '-'7 miles, which, during 
his four years as president was completed to the 
Colorado State line, a distance of nearly five hun- 
dred miles. 

He was president of the Boston, Barre & C rcl 
tier R. R. from 1873 to IS78: and later was also 
president of the Hoosac Tunnel & Western and 
Central Mass. Railroads. 

Mr. Twichell was a prominent member of the 
Unitarian Church. His acts of charity and help 
tut he needy were many. 

He was twice married. first on August 26, 1846, 
to Miss Theolotia. daughter of freight on Ruggles, 
of Barre. Mass., by whom he had eight children, of 
whom only one survives, a daughter. 

Mrs. Twichell died March 0. 1S76. He married 
again June 28th. 1877. Mrs. Catharine M. (Burt) 
Vinal, daughter of William S Burt of I 
N'ew Vork. Mr. Twichell died at his residence on 
l now bent Street, in Brookline. 

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William Henry Lyon. 

Lyon, Willi \m Henry, clergyman and author, 
was born in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachu- 
setts, December 23, 1846. His father Henn Ly- 
on was :i descendant from Caleb Lyon, a Scotch- 
man who came from Hertfordshire, England, to 
New England, in the seventeenth century, and a 
descendant of this Caleb Lyon was a lieutenanl in 
the ( 'ontinental army and was wounded at the bat- 
tle of Hunker Hill. This Caleb's grandson, Caleb 
Lyon (1822-1875) was the son of Caleb Lyon the 
founder of Lyondale, X. V. , and was a representa- 
tive in the -lord Congress, 1853-55; Governor of 
Idaho 1864-66, and an extensive traveller in Tur- 
key, Palestine and Eg\ | it , and a pioneer in Califor- 
nia before the admission of the terril < iry as a state, 
and designer of the state seal adopted Sept. 2, 
18 l'.». I [enry Lyon was an engraver, trustee of the 
Fall River At hena'um and of the Fall River Pub- 
lic Library, a man noted for his inventiveness, 
geniality and loveof literature. Henry Lyon, 
who was brought up in Fall River, was a slender 
child, fond of reading, especially books of biography 
and history, and was taught by his mother lessons 
in usefulness, simplicity and frugality. He had 
regular tasks to perform about the house, and thus 



acquired halm- of regularity and indusl ry \\ hah 
were useful in afterlife. He earned the money t o pav 
part of his tuition in college by si nging in the church 
choir and playing the organ. He was prepared 

for college at the Fall River High Sid I, and was 

graduated at Brown Cniversitv, A. I'... 1868, and 
at Harvard l)i\ init\ School, Cambridge, Mass., I; 
D..1S73. His nu. si helpful reading was biograph\ 
and tii'M came the works of Herbert Spencer, 
Emerson's Divinity School Address, a little life of 
1 Micrlin. and ( 'harles ( 'arm]] Everett '- led lire 
His most inspiring helpin his formathe period was 
from his home minister and t he master of I lie Hisli 
School I pun entering t he minis) rv he served 
the First Cnitarian Church, Ellsworth, Maine. 
1873-78. In 1878 he came to Roxbury, Mas.- . as 
pastor of the Mount Pleasant Congregational 
Church, where he remained (en years 18' 0-90, and 
i f All Souls Fnitarian Church, Roxbury, I' 110-96 

The First Parish of Brookline called him a.- t heir 
ministerin 1S!)6, and he is si ill actively working in 
that society. He is also serving the Town of 
Brookline as a trustee of the Public Librarv, as a 
member of i he school comniil tee. and has been 
president of the Education Society: he has Keen 
■ >\-'> a \ isitor at t he I >h inii \ School, of Harvard 
Cniversitv; president of the Cnitarian Sundav 
School Society : chancellor of the Cnitarian Svnod 
"I Hungary; secretary of t he National Cnitarian 
Conference. His club affiliations are with the St. 
Botolph Club and the Twenl iei h ( 'ent ury ( 'lull of 
Boston. He is t he ant hor of "A St udy of t he 
Sects" 1891; "Early old Testanienl Narratives" 
1893; "Later Old Testament Narratives" 1905. 
Brown I niversity conferred on him the honorary 
degree of l». 1 1. in 1896. Dr. Lyon was married 
April5, 1893, in Louisa, daughter of Eliphalet M., 
and Lydia A. (Beal) Dennison of Boston, and the v 
hail t hree chili lien. 

The law - uf health were close! v observed b\ hi 
Lyon from his early you! h, and his recreation ami 
exercise were boating, tennis and golf, bv mean- 
of which In- tendency to lack concentration of 
thought on one line of Work and In look on I he 
dark side of life were warded off. To young men 
he says: "The selection as earl \ a possible of the 
work you mean in do, and then <teadv, cool, 
t rust ful prosecut ion of it ; simplicity in livii 
kindness to all. confidence in I in man nature and in 
the divine love, and justice in every man. will help 
in win si ich success a- is possible and worth while. 



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Joseph Walker. 

\\ vi.i-.i [{. .Insi I'll, lawyer, State legislator ami 
trustee, wa burn in Worcester, Mass., ,lulv 1-5, 
1N(>5. His father, Joseph Henn V\ alker, II I) 
was the son of Joseph and Hannah Thayer 
(Chapin) Walker; grandson of Joseph and Mehi- 
tal)le (Gibhs) Walker and of Kli and Libby 
(Thayer) Chapin and :i descendant in the ninth 
generation from ('apt. Richard Walker of the 
Ancienl Artillen Conipam of London, who im- 
migrated lo Massachusel I - I'm \ ( 'olotiy in 1 <".:'.( » . 
and located in Saugus, which plantation was in- 
corporated as a i ow 1 1 July ,"), I (i:;i . and on Novem- 
ber 2(1, Hi: ',7, I he name was changed I < > Lvnn. 

lie was a constituent member of the Ancienl 
and Honorable Artillen Company of Boston. 
Joseph Hcnn Walker wa- married Mav IS, 1N52, 
to Sarah, daughter of .lubal and Lucretia (Keys) 
Harrington of Worcester, and secondly, \pnl '■',. 

IS02, to Hannah M. I Keller ) S] r, daughter of 

Michael I'... ami Rachel (Cross) Kelley, of Hamp- 
ton, X. II. lie was admitted as a partner in his 
father's boat factory in IN50, and with his brother 
formed I he linn of .1. II. ,V (!. M. Walker after 
their father's death, and continued in business up 
to ISN7. Me was also a partner in the firm of 



Walker. Oakley Company, Leather Manufactu- 
rers, Chicago, lNO.N-05. lie was a prominent 
leader in i he Republican party; served as a mem- 
ber of I he common council of Worcester ami 

president (if that bi«lv; representative in the 
General Court of Massachusetts fur three terms, 
IN70-S0 and N7; a representative in the United 
State- Congress in the 51st and 55th Congress 

I NNO-09, serving as chairman of i In 1 i nit tee on 

banking and currency. His work as an educa- 
tionist was through his trusteeship of Brown 
I niversity from 1SS0 and of 1 he Newton Theologi- 
cal Institution from 1S74; the presidency of the 
board of trusteef "I Worcester Wademv; as cor- 
respondent i I the Brooklyn Institute of Art and 
Physics from ISO!); hi* directorship in the Ameri- 
can Institute of Civics from ISOO and In- member- 
ship in the American \cademv of Political and 
Social Science, from 1N02, placed him in dose 
touch with I lie men of thought engaged in politi- 
cal and ecoii ie research, throughout the World. 

lie u,'i a director in various banking and other 
financial institutions of Massachusel I s, and presi 
dent uf | lie Worcester Board of Trade. He was 
one of I he founder." and the lirst president of the 
Kcoiiomic ('bib uf Worcester. Tufts College 
conferred on him the honorarv degree of 1. 1.. I'. 
in ISill. He was a voluminous writer on eco 
nomic subjects, and a lit hor of" Money, Trade and 
Banking." Hisson, Joseph Walker, h\ In- second 
wife Hannah M. (Kelley) Speer Walker, was a 
I ii 1 1 H I in t he public schools of Worcester, in rvxeter 
Academy, a ml at Brown I* niversity where he was 
graduated A. B., IS85, and Harvard University 
Law School, where he received In- degree "I LI,. 
I '>.. in I SOO. He practiced law in Boston, and had 
tin- care uf large estates, lie was married .lime 
:;t), 1S90, I,, Can. line, daughter of Waller and 
Julia ( Ant hi.ii v I Richmond and a direct descen- 
dant through her father from John and I'riscilla 
(Mullins) Alden of the Mayflower, 1620. He 

made In- Inline in Bl'ooklitie, that most beautiful 
suburb of Boston, and 1 here five of his six children 
were burn. Joseph Richmond burn in I'rnvidence, 
I!. I., George Richard, Katharine, ICvelyn and 
Dorotln (deceased), lie was elected a Republi- 
can representative to the General Court oi Massa- 
chusetis from Brookline in 1004, and was re- 
elected annually serving 1005-6, and in the legisla- 
ture he served as a member of i he committees "I 
Rules and Wars and Means of the House, and 



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proved himself one ol the most useful meml)ei> i f 
I hese impnrtanl commit Ices. 

He also rej)resented his town on the State 
Board of Charities, and as ,'i member of the Re- 
publican State Committee for several years. As 
a speaker before the legislative body he was 
practical and convincing, not easily excited, and 
his oratory commanded the close attention of the 
members of the House. He was active in town 
affairs, served on the school board and on various 
committees, and he was chairman of the Republi- 
can tow n commit I ce for i hrce years. 

As a member ol the Massachusetts legislature he 
was a prominent candidate for the nomination by 
his party for speaker of the House in 1900, and his 
friends predicted for him rapid promotion through 
the Senate to the governorship, or to the National 
Congress where his father made so pronounced a 
success. 




John Knox Marshall. 

Marshal] , John Knox, was born February 16, 
I s | 1, at Fairfied, Pennsylvania, a few miles west of 
the famous battlefield of Cettysburg. His par- 
ents were the late Hon. James II. Marshall and 
Rachel I! i Knox), both strictly of the Scotch- 
Irish Ancestry. 



When the civil war broke out Mr. Marshall was 

in ( iettysburg preparing fur Prim -el mi I'ni \ ersity. 
The firing upon Port Sumter stirred his Scotch- 
Irish blood, and filled his heart with a patriotic 
purpnse to become a soldier. Ai IS years of age, 
lSti'J, he enlisted as a private in the 15th Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry a regiment selected from a certain 
number of youths from Philadelphia and Pittsburg 
and other counties in the state. The stirring 
times on the border, the winters of 01 and '(>:.> had 
given Mr. Marshall a semi-opportunity to practice 
a soldier's life. The regiment went into training 
at the Carlisle 1. S. Barracks, and became pro- 
ficient under the tutorage of regular army soldiers, 
and was an important link in keeping < ieneral I .ee 
from invading Pennsylvania in IN62, and \\a- 
presenl at the battle of Antietam. November 
1S02, the regiment was ordered west, and became 
a pari of i he Army of the Cumberland. 

Mr. Marshall spent three years in the service, 
and passed through all the non-commissioned 
grades, commanding In- eoinpanv "F" on several 
campaigns as a 1st sergeant. Hence the following 
order, tiled in the archives of the war department 
a i Washington, he prizes with much satisfaction. 

( ieneral < Irders, \*o. 7. 
Headquarters Firsl Brigade, Cavalrv Div. 
Department of the Cumberland, Huntsville, Ua. 
May 20, lXf>. r >. 

The general commanding accepts the present 
opportunity to compliment Sergts. John Burton 
Company P. and John K. Marshall Company P., 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, for the faithful 
discharge oft he duties which, owing to the absence 
of their officers, devolved upon them during the 
recent campaign, and to congratulate I hem up >n 
i fie entire success of t heir effort s to maintain the 
discipline of t hei r re-pert i \ e n unpanies. 

By command ol 
Brevet Brigadier-( ieneral Win. J. Palmer. 
Henrv McAllister, ('apt. and acting assistant ad- 
jutant general 

Prom Brevet Brigadier ( Ieneral Palmer's report. 

I 'lease add the following list of 15th Pennsylva- 
nia for promot ii in, 
First Sergeant John Burton, 
First Sergeant John K. Marshall 
fortheefficiencv with which they commanded their 
respective companies and discipline during the ac- 
tive campaign, there being no commissioned offi- 
cer.' in i heir companies. 



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to the Elevated Railway, and ha? clone much for 
the solution of the question of rapid transit in 
Boston and the suburbs, lie is a member of the 
Society of the Cincinnati, the Boston Chess Club, 
liiiuii Chili, and man}' others, lie married Miss 
Annie I). Snow of Cambridge, Mass., Feb. '_'~>th. 
1' ' u. He has resided in Brooklinc since 1885. 
where he has been chairman el' the School Board, 
trustee of i he Public Library, anil otherwise ac- 
tive in town affairs. He is now serving his second 
term in the Senate where he is chairman of the 
Committee mi Street Railways, chairman of 
Metropolitan Affairs, and member of the Commit- 
tee on Labor; and has in fori) er years been chair- 
man of the Commit lee en Ta xation, and member 
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Desmond FitzGerald. 

I'n z( li.i: M.ii. Dksmond. president oftheAmeri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers, was born in Nas- 
sau, \'e\\ Pro\ idem e, May 20, 1' Hi. ( 'harles 
Lionel William Henn I it /.Gerald was an officer 
in the English Army and received several decora- 
tion from t he Crown for gallant fighting, lie 
married Caroline, daughter of the Hon. Patrick 
and Harriet Brown of Providence, I!. [. and a 



descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of 
Rhode Island. The Fit zGeralds were prominent 
for many centuries in the history of Ireland. II 
riet Brown FitzGerald came to t he city of her birth 
m 1849. 

She was i hen a widow, and brought with her her 
three year old boy, and he attended the public and 
high schools of Providence and Andover's cele- 
brated Phillips Academy, where he was graduated 
in LS64. 

He then studied in Paris. France, for one vear, 
and was deputy secretary of the state of Rhode 
Island under secretary John II. Bartlett. and pri- 
vate secretary to Governor Burnside, 1866. Dur- 
ing this interval he was preparing himself for the 
profession of engineering, and soon afterward en- 
tered the office of Cushing >v Dewitl of Provi- 
dence, R. I., who sent him with an engineering 
corps in survey railn ads in the west. 

He was so employed 1867-70 and on returning 
east in 1870, he was married June 21, 1870, to 
Elizabeth Parker ( lark, daughter of Stephen and 
Elizabeth Salisbury of Brookline, Mass., and thev 
made a new home in that beautiful suburb where 
four children were born of the marriage. lie 
was of the Boston and Albany railroad from 1871- 
73; s ii peri lit ende lit of I he We -I en i Division of the 
Boston Water Works, and resident engineer for 
an additional supply of water for Boston from 

He was also consulting engineer in t he const ruc- 
tion of sanitary works both on the Atlantic and 
Pacific slopes oft he I niled Stales, and in I '.lit I was 
sent to Manila. Philippine Islands, to study the 
sanitary needs of that city. He was a member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers and 
served as president of the sociely as he did of the 
Boston Sociely of Civil Engineers and of t he \*e\\ 
England Water Works Association, lie was a 
member of the corporation of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology; treasurer of the council 
of t he New filmland Meteorological Society, and a 
fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society of 
England. His papers on professional subjects 
have appeared in the various periodicals on 
engineering subjects and have been widely ci 
in non-professional journals. He twice received 
the Norman gold medal for the besl engineering 

pa per published during I lie \ ea r 

His club affiliations were with the Union Club of 

Boston, t he St, Botolph < 'lull of Boston, and t he 



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Country Club of Brookline. Ho served the town 
of Brookline as a trustee of the Public Library and 
as chairman of the Park Commissioners, ami the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the ap- 
l> inl nirni of Governor Russell was benefited by 
In- sen ices as chairman of I lie fop 'graphical Sur- 
ve\ * '' inmissii n. 




Alfred D. Chandler. 

Chandi.ki;, Ai.;'Ki:i) 1).. has been a resilient of 
Brookline since 1N4N. He was educated in the 
public schools of i lial tow n, and at Harvard < 'ol- 
2 raduat injz i here in I ' (>.' I le has followed 
the law as a profession, it being t hat ol some of his 
ancestors for several generation? Ill- preference 
i- for chamber practice in connection with muni- 
cipal anil private corporation law, with trust 
estates, ami with land interests, though on occa- 
sions he has appeared before Committees at the 
National Capitol at Washington, and at the State 
House in I'm -tmi. and also before various Federal 
and State Courts In different parts of the l'nited 
Slate-, in admiralty, tariff, patent, will, and re- 

eel \ er-ln | i ea -e- 

lle drafted I he bill for I he establishment of 
national savings banks, known a- Senator \\ in- 



dom's lull, which was introduce I by Mi'. Windom 
in the l'nited States Senate, March I, 1SS0. Mr. 
('handler's arguments on national savings banks, 
mi opposing the annexation of Brookline to Bos- 
ton , on creating a tribunal to decide that a public 
necessity for a railroad exists before property can 
be i a ken for its construction (Acts of ISS2, Chap. 
'_'(i.">i. on Nationalism and municipal control of 
public lighting, his article entitled "Brookline, — 
a St in U in Town ( !o\ eminent ," in the New 
I a i- la ml Magazine for August, I S93. and his pam- 
phlet i m "The Mel n p ilitan I lebt - of I loston and 
\ icinitv." in I !•()/), a re leading contributions up m 
i In -e subjects. 

Mr. Chandler has been active in the discussion 
and practical working of municipal administra- 
tion, and ha- aided several New ['"ngland towns. 
The enii-l mil loii of I lie Ki \ erdale I 'a rk betwei II 
Brookline and I" -ton i- due mainly to hi- con- 
tinued efforts in surmounting legal and practical 
difficulties in the way. lie ha- had an influential 
hand in directing the largest public improvements 
in Brookline fc r the past twenty-five years, and 
has given especial attention to drafting legislation 
lor i he adapiai ion ol' i he town meeting system oi 
local government to communities large in numbers. 

lie served as ( 'ha in nan of the Boards of Select- 
men, Surveyors of Highways, Health, and Over- 
-eei of the Poor, in Brookline. in IS.S4, 1SS5 and 
I' Mi, and as a Trustee <<\ the Brookline Public 
Library in 1S74, 1N7.5 and 1S7G. The animal 
Brooklme Town Reports, the most complete per- 
haps of an v in the country, now follow the i node I 
established by his direction in ISSo. lb- ha- been 
a constant contributor to the press on a \ ariety of 
questions touching municipal and national ad- 
mi nisi ration. He was I he president of I he Brook- 
line Republican ''I" 1 ' in |s ' 1 -'- 

He i- a iiieinl ier of t he I iosti in I !;ii Associat ion, 
In American Bar Association, the American 
Kconomic \ssociation. the American \cademy ol 
Political and Social Science, the National Munici- 
pal League, the National Geographic Society, the 
Immigration Restriction League, the Metropolitan 
Improvement League, the Exchange Club of Bos- 
ton, of w I lie 1 1 he w a- an active founder, the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, and ot hers. 

Mr. Chandler was married in Brookline. Decem- 
ber 2'_>. 1SS2, to Miss Mary Merrill Poor, daughter 
of Henry Y. and Mary W. (Pierce) Poor. They 
1 . e six children, five sons and one daughter. 



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Thomas B. Fitzpatrick. 

Fitzpatrick, Thou vs I ' . , Member of the School 
Board of Brookline. was bom in (irafton, Mass., 
Dec. 17. 1844, the son of Patrick and Mary Fitz- 
patrick. In his youth the family moved to Hop- 
kintoii. Mass.. and here young Fitzpatrick learned 
hi cultivate habits of industry, working mi his 
father's farm, spring and summer, attending school 
fall and winter, and graduated from district and 
high schools with signal honors. He was the first 
Catholic boy to attend and graduate from tin 1 Hop- 
kintini High School. 

When eighteen years of age, he came to Boston 
and found employment for about a year with K. 
1 1. Bell iV Co.. dry goi ds, at a salary of I wo dollars 
a week. Here also his future partner, Oliver II. 
Durrell. worked for the same pay. Mr. Fitzpat- 
rick engaged with the wholesale house of Mason, 
Tucker A: Co., Boston, a- travelling salesman, ami 
during the next eight vears built up a large trade, 
ln.lulv, 1872, In' entered the employ of Brown. 
Dutton&Co. On Nov. 9, 1 872. the great Boston 
lire took place, brought about a dissolution of I he 
house, a i n 1 1 nit 1 1 Mr. Brown and Mr. Dutton under- 
took to form separate firms, which had been con- 
templated some t line before. Although but a lew 



months in the employ ol these gentlemen, their 
observation of the character, energy and busine 
capacity of Mr. Fitzpatrick induced c;ir\\ of them 
to offer him a proposit ion of coparl nership. I [e 
icci [)ted that of Mr. Brown, as did also Mr Dur- 
rell, and thus the firm of Brown. Durrell A; Co.. 
was formed. 

Commencing small, the firm has teadih gained, 
and now is one of the largest and most successful 
whole-ale t ; i in- \ dry goods houses in the I nited 
States. Mr. Brown retired from the firm in De- 
cember, 1893. Mr. Durrell is now dead, and Mr. 
Fitzpatrick is now the sen mi- member. 

Hi- ,'|i se attention to business does not pre\ ent 
him from active co-operation in philanthropic and 
charitable work. In these connections he has 
been associated with many of the most active or- 
ganizations, among them the Catholic I nioii ol 
I;, -ioii (of which representative society he was 
president two terms), the Associated Charities, 
i lie Working Boy-' Home. St. Mary's Infant 
Asylum, Child Helping Society, lie helped to es- 
tablish the Working Girls' Home on 1'iiioii Bark 
St reel , in charge of Gray Xuns. He contributed 
generously to the Catholic University of Washing- 
ton, 1 >. ( '.. and was the originator of the prop, sal 
to -ecu re one hundred annual contributors to that 

ill-tit 111 ion. lie lias been treasurer of t lie 1 nited 

Irish League since its establishment in America, 
and his support of the Irish ( 'mist it ut ion struggle 
f, r over twenty years is well known. April '_'. 

15)05, the Notre D; ■ I niversity of South Bend. 

Indiana, conferred upon him the Laetare Medal, 
it being t In' first nine to honor a Catholic layman. 

for a number of year- he has been president ol 
the I'ihoii Institution lor Savings, is director in 
t he I'nited Stale- "I'm -l Company and 1 lie New Ion 
Co-operative Bank. In 1899 lie was elected a 
member of the Newton Board of Aldermen. 

Mr. I'll /.pal rick was married in 187(i to Sarah 
M. < ileason, daughter of Martin < Ileason of Fitch- 
burg, Mass. Seven children were born to them. 

five sons and two daughters. <> I the sons 

1 1 1< -< I u hen i hree years old. Three of t lie ot hers 

graduated from the Newton High Scl 1 ami from 

Harvard Cnivcrsity. \nother son is at present 
in the Brookline High School. His daughters 
wore ducated ai Kdeu Hall Seminary. Pennsylva- 
nia. For twenty years he resided on Walt ham 
Street, West Newton. Since 1904, he has resided 
in Brookline. occupying a residence on Gard net I M 



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Guy Lowell. 



[,(>\vi l.l,(!i v, l>uil<l ing a nd landscape architect, 
w ;i.- horn in Bosl nil, Mass. 

He obtained his primary and secondary school 
training in Boston, France, Germany and Kng- 
l - 1 till, lie matriculated al Harvard University in 
the class of 1892, and was graduated bachelor of 
Arts, lie then took a post graduate course in 
architecture al the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology and was graduated B. S., IS94. He 
pursueda further course in Architecture al L'eeole 
cles Beaux Arts in Paris, and was graduated 
in IS99. Hi' established an office in Boston, 
where he has pracl iced architecture and landscape 
architecture since 1900, and also conducted a 
course in Landscape Architecture in the Institute 
of Technology from 1900. Mi'. Lowell was 
married in 1898, to Henrietta Sargent, daughter 
of Professor Charles S Sargent of Brookline, and 
i |,r\ made I heir home in i hat beautiful suburban 
town where there an' many examples ol his pro- 
fessional skill in well planned private residences 
and surrounding grounds and parks. Further 
examples of his skill and superior architectural 
abilin are shown in buildings I'm- Harvard Univer- 



sity, Cambridge, Mass.; for Brown University 
Providence, Rhode Island; the Academy al An- 
dover.and l> >i h public an I private buildings in the 
City of Boston. 

William Aspinwall. 
Asia \ w vll, Willi im, only son of Colonel Thomas 

Aspinwall. who was United Slates consul at Lon- 
don. Lug., from 1815 to 1853, was born in London, 
[•'eb. 16, [S19. His grandfather was Dr. Wm. As- 
pinwall of Brookline, a patriot of Revolutionary 
days, who took a pari with the Brookline minute 
men in attacking the British troops on their re- 
Heat from Concord on tin.' memorable 19th ol 
April, 177o. His great grandfather was Isaac 
Gardner, the only Brookline minute man who was 
killed on that day. He is a direct descendant ol 

Peter Aspinwall of Toxtet h I 'ark. near Li\ erpool, 
who came to America in 1630, settled in Dorches- 
ter, and in 1650 removed to Muddy River (Brook- 
line). Here ten years later he built the house 
which stooil no Aspinwall Avenue opp site St. 
Paul's Church until LS91, when it was taken 
down, as it had become uninhabitable and in a 
dangerous <• lition. Wm. Aspinwall was edu- 
cated m a private boarding school at Hammer- 
smith, near London, until he was fourteen, and 
then coming to the lulled States with his father 
and family entered Harvard in 1S34 ami gradua- 
ted in 183S. lie began the study of law' in Cam- 
bridge, under Professors Joseph Story and Simon 
Greenleaf, in 1S40, receiving the degree ol LL. 
B., and continued his studies another year in the 
office of Franklin Dexter and < leorge W. Phillips, 
when lie was admitted to the liar. From thai 
lime until his death he was engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession. Since 1847 he had been a 
legal resident of Brookline. and look an active pail 
in its affairs as well as in State and national poli- 
tics. From 1850 to 1852 he was town clerk; in 
1851 and 1852 he represented the town in the 
lower house of the Legislature, in 1853 in I he con- 
stitutional convention; in 1854 he was a Slate 
senator from Norfolk county; and from 1857 to 
I860 he was trial justice lor Brookline, finally re- 
signing I his position. lie has also held the offices 
of select man, assessor, water commissioner, and 
trustee of I he Public Library (being chairman of 
the latter board). In national politics he was a 
Whig of the Webster order until 1861. From 



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1S52 to 1S56 he was a member of the Whig State 
committee; in 1S56, in the Fremont campaign, its 
chairman, with Frederick 0. Prince as secretary 
and Peter Butler as treasurer. From 1S61 he 
acted with the Democratic party, serving for 
many years (until IS8S, when he resigned) upon 
its State central committee and as chairman from 
1n7'_' to the election of Governor Gaston in 1874. 
In 1866 he received the nomination of his party 
for Congress. He was an ardent supporter oi the 
government during the Civil War, and called the 
first meeting in Brookline to urge its vigorous 
proseeut ion. He served t wo years on the milit an 
committee of the town, and was at the same time 
secretary of I he Mass. Rifle Club, at whose head- 
quarters in the old Boylston Hall in Boston sever- 
al regiments were recruited and drilled. In Jan- 
uary, 1S4S, Mr. Aspinwall was married to Miss 
Arixene Southgate, daughter of Richard King 
Porter, of Portland, Me., a nephew of Senator 
Rufus King; they had three children, a daughter, 
now the wife of Dr. W. I'). Trull, and two sons, 
Thomas and Win. Henry Aspinwall. both in busi- 
ness in 1 (osl .in. 

William Aspinwall died October 25, 1902. 



Robert Treat Paine, 2nd. 

Paine, Rohert Treat, 2nd, lawyer and member 
of many business corporations, was born in New 
Bedford, December 3, 1861; he is the sun of 
William Cushing Paine of Boston. He was 
married in 1890, to Ruth Cabot, daughter of Wal- 
ter Channing Cabot, "t Brookline. He has four 
children: Walter Cabot, Richard Cushing, Eliza- 
beth Mason and Ruth Cabol Paine. 

He graduated from Harvard in 1882, studied 
law, and became a member of the Suffolk Par. 
He is now occupied in attending to the affairs of 
many business corporations, either as officer or 
director, including those of the General Electric 
Company, and of many Elecl rical, Railway, Indus- 
trial and Securities companies; United Shoe 
Machinery Company, Rutland Railroad, Boston 
Children's Aid Society, Milton Academy, Suffolk 
Savings Bank, Workingmen's Loan Association, 
Greater New York Development Company, and 
othercompanies. He is also interested inland in 
Brooklyn, N. V. He resides on Heath street in a 
house on the Walter ( '. Cabot estate. 




Moses Williams. 

Williams, Moses, lawyer, legislator, president 
of State Street Trust Company, was born in Rox- 
littry. Boston, Mass., December I. I' Mi. His 
father, Muses B. Williams, son of Moses and Mary 
(Blake) Williams ami a descendant from Robert 
Williams, was a merchant. He married Mary 
Jane, daughter of Elisha and Sybil (Allen) Peni.i- 
iiKin and a descendant from James Penniman. 
Moses William- was a pupil in the Brookline pub- 
lic -el Is and was graduated at Harvard, A. I'... 

June. 1S68, and was admitted u> the Suffolk Bar 
the following December. He practiced in Boston 
and in IN?:;, 1874 and 1875 served in the lower 
house ill' the Massachusetts legislature where he 
was a member of the Railroad Committee and for 
one term chairman of the committee, also serv- 
ing a- chain nan of t he Committee mi Resumption 
of Specie Payments In 1875. lie was also chair- 
man nl' the committee appointed by the House oi 
Representatives nl' Massachusetts to represent 
that body in the reception given to President 
( Irani on the occasion of his visiting the Common- 
wealth fn take part in the celebration of tin e 

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and Concord. He was elected president of the 
Third N'ational Hank of Host on in 1SS6, and was a 
director when that institution was consolidated 
with the Shawmul N'ational Bank in 11)01. He 
became president of the State Street Trust Com- 
pany of Boston in ISill. He is a member of the 
[*nion Club of Boston, and in 1N91 he was elected n 
member of t he board of ovei seer.- i il I la n a n I 
Cniversity. lb 1 was married September 11), I ' 68, 
in Maiilia Caroline, daughter of Henry and Anne 
Loder) Finley of Brookline, Mass., and their 
children were Moses '.id, Man Kleanor, Hugh. 
I 'oust ance Marl ha and < ilad\ s \\ il 






Caleb Oiasc. 

Chasi . I'm i a, i- the head i if i In- great ci ifl'ee- 
li i use ol Cha <t «v Sa nborn, I lost on. His I in iok 



Harwich, where he remained until his twenty- 
third year. 

In 1.' .". I Mr. i 'ha -<■ wenl to I '.- -inn. a in I ent erei I 
i he employ of Anderson Sargent, wholesale dry- 
goods merchant, acting as travelling salesman. 
He remained with Mr. Sargent for about seven 
years, and thru accepted a pi sit ion with Clafiin. 
Sa\ille iV Co., wholesale grocers in the same city. 
Ho Mild goods for this linn "on t lie mad" for five 
and one-half years. In 1867, with Inn other 
young men, lie established the firm of ( 'an-. ( 'hase 
•V Raymond, wholesale grocers, in State Streel 
After a few years Mr. Carr withdrew 
from the firm, and it i hen became ( 'hase, Ray- 
mond & Aver; and ii was subsequently chan i 
to Chase >V Sanborn, by which title it has been 
known for the past twenty-six years. 

[•'or -several years prior to 11)03 the firm occu- 
pied .i s])aciotis building running through from 
Broad to Batlcrvniareh Streets, but a few months 
ago i he I ii i -i ne-- offices were removed to mere e.\- 
leusi\e quarters, which were especially filled up 
in the most commodious and luxurious manner. 
The building is several ti rie in height, and lias 
ent ranees mi High a nd la "ml Si reel - 

Mr. Chase i- reckoned among the millionaire 
merchant princes i i I >i iston. I [e at I ribul i 
go id fortune in In- strict attention to the business 
of his house, without entering into an\ outside 
speculation, coupled with the fact thai he lias been 
blc ed wnli the best of partners, and also that 
n hoi el w a \ In en a liberal user of prin- 

Rufus George Frederick Candage. 

C i ■ w , I , 1! i il s Gt;i ihi , i. 1 i; I in [ill k. was Inn n 
iii Blue Hill, Me.. July 28, 1826. Retired Ship- 
master. Surveyor of Shipping. Brookline < Hfices 
field: School Committee, Trustee I'ublic Library, 
Select man. I ie] iresenl at i\e to I }<<■ ' leneral C iitrt 
or. Moderator of town meetings. Chairman 



line house occu] lie a commanding \ iew en Beacon ' cent i\e Committee on 200th Annh ersa ry el i lie 

Boulevard, and i- one of the most luxuriously town's incorporation. President Historical Socie- 



furnished home- in I In- I own. 

Mr. Chase was born in West Harwich, Mas-. 
December 11. 1831. and there ha- a partial sum- 
mer home. Hi- parent- were Job and ['ho be \. 



tv. and ex-I'rcsidcnt Boston Marine Society 
Member of Historical Genealogical Society, Bos 
Ionian Society, New York Ma fine Society, Ameri- 
can Shipmasters' Association, Blue Hill (Me.) 



\\ in -low i Chase lie received In- earl v educa- Historical Society. Corresponding Member Maine 

nan eii Cape led, and. when approaching man- Historical Society, and Holioran Membei ol 

fi I. entered his father's count n store ai West Beverlv Historical Society. 



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Solomon Adams Woods. 
\\" < i< > i >-. Solomon Adams, a prominent citi/.i n 
i i I in ii i] line. * in i if < '< ill mel Nat lni niel ;i ml Han- 
nah (Adams) Woods, was horn in Farmingtc.n. 
Mc. October 7, 1827. < )n the paternal side he 
descended from Samuel Woods, an original 
landed proprietor of Grot on, Mass., where the 
family long lived; On the maternal side he is a 
grandson of Major Solomon Adams, a cotton 
manufacturer, fourth in descent from Captain 
Samuel Adams, magistrate and representative of 
Chelmsford, Mass., in its first half century. Mr. 
Woods' paternal grandfather was a pioneer at 
I annington, and his father a leading man In the 
town. The son was brought up on a good farm, 
and attained his education in the district school 
and at the Farmington Academy. At the age of 
twenty he engaged with a local carpenter in 
learn the use of tools and the trade of house- 
building. 

Four yea I later he came to Ma.-.-achu-et ts tn 

purchase machinep. for the manufacture ot 
door; i , and blinds, his purpose being to 

erect a mill in his native town and to enter this 
business with his former employer as a partner. 
Instead, however, of carrying ou1 this plan, he 



engaged in the same business in I li ston as a 
journeyman with Solomon S. Gray. 

Within the first year Mr. Wind- purchased 
the plant, and on the lsi of Janua r\ . 18.Y2, went 
into the manufacture on his own account. In 
1854, he entered into partnership with Mr. Gray, 
and under the name ot Gray >V Woods, for the 
manufacture and sale of a wood-planing ma- 
chine, originally designed 1>\ Mr. Gray, I ml ren- 
dered more practical bv the inventions of Mr. 
Wcxids. This partnership continued for the 
term of live vears, during which peried additii nal 
impro\ements were patented. In lNno, Mr. 
Woods' business, then conducted under his name 
alone, was considerably extended by the addition 
of the manufacture of the Woodbury planer, 
with the Woodbury patent improvements, of 
which he was the sole licensee; and to meet its 
demand-, he erected manufacturing works in 
South Boston, and established branch houses in 
N'ew York and Chicago. Kight year- after, in 
1873, the S. A. Woods Machine Company, with a 
capital of three hundred thousand dollar-, was 
fi nned, Mr. Wi n ds as president . 

This position he still holds. More than fifty 
patent.- for devices and improvements in machines 
for planing wood and making mouldings have 
been issued to the successive firms oi Gray <V 
Wood-. S. A. Woods, and the S. A. W Is Ma- 
chine Company, and they have received nearly a 
hundred gold, silver and bronze medals from 
various international tans and mechanical exhi- 
bition.-. Mr. Woods has been a member oi the 
Boston common council (1SG!), 1870, and IS71), 
m which he served on important committees and 
took a leading part: in 1870 and In7I he was a 
director of the [Cast Boston ferries; and in 1878 
he declined a nomination to the Board oi Aldermen, 
pressed upon him by both the Republican and 
Citizens parties. Since 1870 he has been a 
trustee of the South Boston Savings Bank, and 
for many year.- a member of it- board of invest- 
ment. Mr. W Is was married in Boston. 

August 21, IS")4, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Weath- 
i 'tn . of Vienna, Me. She died in 1802, and he 
was again married, in 1867, to Miss Sarah Catha- 
rine Watts, of Boston. lie has three children: 
frank Forrest, treasurer of the S. A. Woods 
Machine Co.. Florence, and Dr. Frederick Adam- 
Wood-. Harvard Medical School 1 80S, bic.lc.gis1 
and author. 



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i:i;siin:\( k ok JEROME joxes, si \i\iii avkmk 



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Jerome Jones. 

,Io.\Ks, Jkkoml, head of the great cmcken and 
glass importing house of Jones, McDuffee ^ 
St rat ton Company, Boston, was born in At hoi , 
Worcester County, October 13. 1S37. He is the 
youngest son of Theodore and Marcia (Hstabrook) 
Jones. Welsh upon his father's side, upon his 
in ither's he is a grandson of Re\ . Joseph Esta- 
hrook, who was for forty-five years t lie minister 
of At hoi, 'it' Pilgrim stock and a graduate of Har- 
vard. Cp i" the time he was thirteen year- of 
age Jerome Jones was a pup! I in the At hoi schools, 
when he went to work in the country store oi 
Goddard & Ward, of Orange, Mass. 

In 1S53 young Jones entered the store of ( 'tis 
Xorcross A; Co., Boston, a- an apprentice. In 
lstil, when li<- was only twenty-four years old, 
Mr. Jones was made partner, and in I860 he wenl 
in Kurope as foreign buyer for the house. When 
Mr. Xorcross retired to assume the mayoralty, 
Mr. June- and Mr. Ichabod Howland became 
partners. Mr. Howland died in 1871, when the 
firm of Jones, McDuffee & Stratton was formed, 
and in 1896 the house was incorporated as the 
Junes, McDuffee a Stratton Company. 



Mr [ones has honored Boston in many ways, 
and the citizens have long looked to him as a 
leader in ci \ ic affairs. The sen ices which tie has 
rendered to the community have been varied and 

r ;acting. He was oi f the early members oi 

the Tariff Reform League. The Commercial 
Club is another ass iciation of which he has been 
the head. Very lew reform movements or effort 
to save Boston's landmarks from constant en- 
croachment and carelessness have failed of Mr. 
Jones's assistance. He was for two years a 
member of the mayor's ad\is u\ board, appointed 
by the Board of Trade. He is an active member of 
the Merchants' Association, and has filled the 
presidency of the Associated Board of Trade and 
of the Earthenware Association. He is a vice- 
presidenl of the Home Savings Bank, was a di- 
rect ir in the Third National Hank, of the Massa- 
chusetts Loan and Trust Company, of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce, and a trustee of Mt. Auburn 
Cemel erv. He is a member of the I 'nitarian 
Club, of the Brookline Thursday Club, and of the 
I hi in Club. All these functions may be per- 
formed bv some men alter a dummy manner, but 
it is not s i with Mr. June-. In all he i- an active 
spirit ; and. without putting forth the arts ol 
oratory, he always exerts that influence which 
sincere conviction and lucid truthfulness oi state- 
ment carry with them. In the first group oi im- 
portant citizens Jerome Jones's name would al- 
ways be enumerated by t hose who know the bean 
ill' Boston. 

Mr. Jones was president of the Worcester Xorth- 
we-i Agricultural Society at At hoi, the town of 
his nativity, where his sisters have occupied the 
old Theodon Junes homestead; and in Brookline, 
bis later home, he has occupied positions of trust. 

Mr. June-, whose health was impaired thirty 
war- ago, was advised to seek some lofty, [Hire 
situation for his dwelling, and he pitched upon 
i 'ore\ Hill, in Brookline, where he has found full 
health and comfort for himself and family. Books 
and works of art crowd the delightful home, and 
make t he inlook as at t ract ire as t he i ut lm k 
and but h are \ erv la i r 

Mr. Junes lias been twice married. His first 
u ile was Eli/abet h R. Wait, of I Jreenficld. M 
June- died July 10, 1878, leaving four children. 
Theodore, Elizabeth W., Marcia E.. and Helen I; 
June-. He wa- married the second time in I eb 
ruarv, 1881, to Mrs. Maria E. Dutton. of Boston, 



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Jonathan L. Dexter. 
!ii xtf.h, Jonathan L., one of Brookli no's wide- 
ly known citizens, was born a( Martha's Vineyard, 

Jan. 23rd, 1S43, where he spenl In- boy It 1 and 

received his education. Forty years ago he came 
i" Boston and entered the produce business, 
w liirli he made his life-w ork. I [e connected him- 
self with the old established lirni of Sands. I'ui'- 
ber &(.'()., anil his faithful work soon brought him 
the position of junior partner. A- junior partner 
almosl the entire conduct of the firm's business 
fell tohitn. Must of us realize thai no other busi- 
ness requires such constant application and hard 
work as fruit and produce. While this is true 



I argelossesof the fruit could be a\oided only by 
tl»' creates! care, as in those days practically 
everything came as far as New York by canal. 
This firm also supplied a large number of the oranges 
consumed, and it max be said that it was through 
Mr. Dexter's firm and a few other firms thai Cali- 
fornia and Florida oranges were introduced into 
Boston. The linn also sent cranberries to Cali- 
fornia by way of Cape Horn in casks, filled 
will) water to keep from decaying, as they were 

si\ months in going. The linn had quite a trade. 
mic lime, before ice machines were made, shipping 
fruit and vegetables in vessels partly loaded with 
ice io Barbadoes and as far as Calcutta and the 
Fast India Islands. 

\\ here Mr. Dexter's enterprise gained cusl outer; 
his integrity and fair dealing retained I hem. An 
interesting fact to note in this connection is thai 
he supplied .1. it. \\ hippie's hotels. > 
barker House and Touraine from the day they 
were opened until Mr. Dexter reined from busi- 
M - Mr. Dexter has identified himself with the 
growth of Brookline by his interest in real estate, 
having been connected with a number of ike 
largest builder.-. Si. Paul St.. Babcock Hill dis- 
trict, and certain parts south of Coolidge Corner, 
for example, owe their development largelv to his 
i le i- also a i rustee of a number of es- 
tates. 

.Ian. 7lh. 1S75, he married Miss Marv I.. Seav- 
ems, daughter of Thomas Keaverns. Mrs. Dex- 
ter's birthplace was on the site of the present 
Baptist Church. l'i\ eehildren.werebnni to t hem 
Lucy Amelia, who i- now Mrs. Geo. 11. Hutchin- 
son, Alary Love, Hiram, Delia Carrie, and frank 
Sea \ erns. 

I in \|.nl 4th, 1901. Mr. Dexter losl ike wife 
w In. had been such an inspiration and aid to him. 
This loss was fell not only by him but by all who 
had come in contact with her. Mr. Dexter lias, 



today, it must be remembered with what greater 

difficulties il was beset before the introduction of though possessing so many friends, never allied 



our improved means of transportation, and 
freight-cars, whose temperature can be regulated 
to -uit the needs of the various fruits and vege- 
tables. 

In I he earlier yen rs of Mr. I k'Xter's career. New 
Fngland apples were practically unknown, and 
the demand for this fruit had Io be supplied by 

i he western article. The firm of Sands. Furber >v 

Co. were the largest receivers in I his line, some 

having as manv as Go.000 or 70,000 bbls. 



himself with any social organi finding the 

besl relaxation in hi- home. lie ha- keen a mem- 
ber of the Boston fruit <V Produce Exchange for 
a number of years, and still keeps in touch with 
hi former business associates by visitin 

Kx change. He has been a resident, of Brookl r 

thirty years. 

At the request of a number of his neighbors and 
friends he was a candidate for I he a 31 0] hip for 
1900. 



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William Craig. 
Venm.nl has furnished her quota of sturdy sons 
,,, make complete the eomp Ate picture ol the 
-he4 -Governed and richest town in Massachusetts 
has more ably fulfilled this mission than 

subject f this sketch, Will.au < mu<;, 
chairman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen. 

Nestling neath the towering lull-- rising one 
abovetheothertilltheymeel the sky. lies the little 
hamle1 „f Easl Corinth. Vermont, where he was- 
born on the loth of January, 1S47. only a few 
brief hours ere the 1ml- mother -passed through 
,|„. vallev of the shadow of death" leaving 
tinv infant to the loving care of Mrs. Alma Last- 
man who afterward became Mrs. Alma Eastman 
Cnlia Mr Craig pavs high trbute to the earh 
tra in .. - sturdy Xct England parents, and 

•^ a son of Vermont is especially proud (shining as 
lu , does in reflected glory) of the ancestry of his 
adopted mother.whiehineludesCaptainPeterPow- 

erswho in 1754 headed the first exploring party sent 

llV ,1 vernment into the "hitherto unknown 

wilderness" (the valley of the Connecticut) called 
tho Coos country, long before Vermonl became a 
st ate Rev. Peter Powers the firsl minister in the 
(-ooseountrv.and following him his son, occupied 
the pulpit in Newbury upward of a hundred years. 
Hiram Powers the great American sculptor, 



made famous hv his "Greek Slave" and whose 
statue of Daniel Webster graces the State House 
lawn, was an own cousin; Governor Powers ol 
Maineisof this branch of the family, as is ah . Dr. 
Herbert Hale Powers of Brookline. 

In1S60 while in hi- thirteenth year, Pere John 
, r .,i.r nmveil his family t« Lyme N'. H. and three 
,ears later returned to Bradford Vt. (famed as the 
birth place of Capt. Clark of the Oregon), \oung 
Crai"- had received a goo<ldistrid school education, 
| )Ut completed a course later at the Thetford 

Academy. 

Craig senior was a miller and this honorable call- 
imvmkht have been William's; -he would none ol 
it " bul entered the employ, as an apprentice, ol 
]()hn B. Peckett -I' Bradford who owned a large 
-aw mill. Finding this work uncongenial and not 
.ufficientlv remunerative, lie resolved to try his 
luek in a wider field, the desired opportunity pre 
.entimntselfthroughhis uncle Edward Craig, then 
superintendent ofthe Brighton. Mass .cattle yards, 
u . h „ cam e to Vermont to buy lv.rses. To him he con- 
fided his ambition and through him the gateway 
fa broader life was thrown open when, with the 
consent of his parents, he boarded a" slow freighl 
toaceompam and care for a "bl odxl morgan en 
route t" Brighton market. No m mnted Dot, 
Quixote with lance and spear ever felt one-halt so 

■"uew months in his uncle', employ brightened 
and broadened his ideas, and a stepping stone to 
„,,..„,.,. things secured 3 position with N'athan 
Hark provision dealer of Cambridge St.. Boston. 
With laudable ambition to st ill better hiscondition 
h e later accepted an offer from Hall. Chessman & 
<•,, of Faneuil Hall Market. Here he remained 
three vears and when .hi- linn diss ,lved trans- 
ferred his allegiance to Winn, Richer* Co. Hard 
wor k and close attention to business during the 
next ten Near- found him in a position to Inn nl 
the retiring partner a half interesl in the firm (al- 
th ou-h no chance has ever been made m the turn, 
name"),andthisrelation has continued throughout 
two decades to the presenl time Mr. < raip >- ' 
member of the Boston Fruit and Produce Lx- 
( . ham re. one of the largesl associations oi its kind 
inthe countrv. numbering upward of 700 mem 
He w . ls elected it- Vice President in 1000 and 
( . uU edto its highest office in 1001. re-elected Presi- 
,!,.,,, in m02.an honor never lief ore accorded an> 
(lther man since its institution. 



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I luring his official term there were knotty ques- 
tions requiring exceptional tact a in I dipL macy to 

solve, notably the agitatii f the extension of 

Broad street through the market district, and the 
questions as to the right of market gardners in 
occupy the streets adjacent to Faneuil Hall 
Market. He was appointed a delegate by the 
lessees of Markets to confer ami treat with the 
late Major Collins in the matter of leases, ami 
appointed by the mayor to act with Mr. Duane 
asto fixing amount to be paid by tenants above 
the market. He was also called in consultation 
with the mayor asto the advisability of remov- 
ing I he i racks < n Tn tin nt St.. and later in t he 



ley, Norfolk and Middlesex Clubs. Since 1S95, 
ln> home has been on Columbia Street, near 
Harvard. His wife was Julia K. Flanders of Brad- 
ford, Vt. ; he has two son.-., Edward Dunn, ami 
John B., and one daughter, Fanny May. 

Mr. Ciaii;'- record speaks let- itself. It is the 
record of a successful business man, a man who 
enji ys in a remarkable degree the confidence ami 
hyalty of In- business associates, lie has pro- 
nounced ideas ami dares to uphold them. His 
judgment and ability are unquestionable. Practi- 
cal, with unlimited common sense, he is genial 
ami jovial tit the same time. Impelled by public 
spirit rather than an j desire for office, he accepted 




HOME m MR. .1. MURRAY KAY, GARDNER ROAD. 
teamsters' strike ami the coal strike did especially the right of the people with whom he has so loir. 



pracl ical and \ allied work. 

During his presidency he "made good" with hi 



"neighbored'Today, whether he should be one to 
assist in the government of the town in which thev 



associates by strongly advocating and finally bring ha\o mutual interest. The Boston Herald said 

ing about shorter hours fort he employees of Faneuil "Select man Craig was generally conceded to be a 

Hall Market. He isa delegate from the Exchange sure winner long before the polls were opened," 



to the Association Board of Trade, also one o 
the Legislative conn nit tee ; he has also served tb 
town of his adoption on many important com 
mit tees, not ably the Citizens Commit tee of Thirt v 
and i he commit tee on t he ad\ isabilil \ of 1 iuild 
ing a covered resen oir on I 'isher Hill. 

Mr. Craig is affiliated with the Brookline Lodge man of the board June. 1906 

of Free Masons, also a member of the Foinl Shir- 

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and in one of the closest and most bitterly con- 
tested town elect am- 1 in h >k 1 1 1 ie has seen iii recent 
years, this prediction was fulfilled by his election 
to the vacant place on the Board of Select men in 
1904, this office he still retains, having been re- 
elected in March, 1905 and 190G. Elected chair- 



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Henry Franklin Miller. 
Milli r, Hi -i:v Fraxklix, eldest son nf the 
late Henry F. Miller (founder of piano manu- 
facturing business of the Henry F. Miller & Sons 
Piano Co.) and Fran,.- V. (Child) Miller. Born 
in Providence, R. I., in LS4S. and eame to Boston 
when a child. Mr. Miller is descended on both 
sides from oldesl Rhode Island families, and is a 
lineal descendant of Roger Williams, and is also a 
Mayflower descendant. One of his ancestors is 
Joseph Jenks, who came to this country in 1636, 
settling in bvnn, Mass., and who established the 
first brass foundry on the Western Continent; of 
his several sons Mr. Miller is a descendant of Col. 
jenks of the Revolutionary war, and another son 
was one of Rhode Island's colonial governors. 

Mr Miller attended the Boston public schools, 
graduating from the Boston English High School 
in LS67, with honors, receiving the franklin 
Medal and three Lawrence prizes; he was captain 
of the first company to receive the first prize ever 
given to a Boston School Regiment, and still holds 
as a very precious possession the blue banner 
awarded at thai time. 

Immediately on leaving scl 1 Mr. Miller en- 
tered his father's business, and in 1884 (on the 



deathof Mr. Miller. Sr.. when the present corpora- 
tion was formed) became president of the Henn 
T. Miller vV Si. ns Piano Co., which office he has 
held ever since. 

The Henry F. Miller & Sons Piano Co. 
Massachusetts corporation, with a large and pn - 
perous business extending throughout the entire 
country. The Boston retail warerooms are at 
:;.i.-, Bovlston St., in the beautiful building recent- 
ly erected especially for this company. The com- 
pany also has a branch house in Philadelphia at 
1 in;, i hestnul St., occupying an entire Imilding in 
the heart of the piano trade of thai city. The 
factory is ai Wakefield, Mass., and it- product 
is senl to the wholesale trade direct from Wake- 
field. 

Por years Mr. Miller has been particularly in- 
terested in the development of the artistic side of 
the business, to the furnishing of the pianos from 
special designs, with special decorations, &c, 
which has given to this house a leadership second 
,,, no other house in the trade. From a musical 
standpoint the Henry F. Miller pianos have from 
the first maintained a high standing, and the 
Hem-} F. Miller pianos today are maintaining for 
this company the highest position. and have a re- 
cognition from the musical world which today 
makes this company one of the most important in 
tne pi an oforte industry of the country. 

Mr. Miller is interested in the various piano 
trade associations, as well as in various financial 
and philanthropic organizations, &c. He was 
the first president of the National Piano Manu- 
facturers Association of America, and held this 
office for the first two years, and is at the present 
time chairman of the Executive Committee, for 
the Fastern States, of this Association; he was 
,No the first president of the Boston Music Trade 
Association, serving for three years, and, aftei an 
interval of five vears, is president of this Associa- 
tion at the present time. He represents the Bos- 
ton Music Trade Association in the Boston Asso- 
,,,.„,.,, u ,,. u ,i of Trade, and at the present time is 
treasurer of the latter Association. He is a direc- 
tor of the Mechanics Trust Company, treasurer oi 
the Boys Institute of Industry, a vice-president 
„f the 'industrial Aid Society. Mr. Miller is a 
Unitarian, and is prominent in 1 nitanan work: 
he is a member of the Channing Club, oi which he 

was the first president; a mberofthel nitanan 

Club and a life member of the American 1 nitanan 



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Association; he is also ;i member of the Boston 
Young Men's Christian I nion. He is also a 
member of the Bostonian Society , a Fine Member 
of the Eirst Corps of Cadets, a member "I the 
Masonic Order, and also a inember of the Tedesco 
Club at Beach Bluff, Mass., where he has a country 
residence. 

Mr. Miller married in 1X74, Mi's. Miller is a de- 
scendant of (io\ernor Endieott of colonial days, 
and is also of distinguished French Huguenot 
descent. Mr. and Mrs. Miller and their daughter 
Miss Margaret Ogden Miller, became residents of 
Brookline alioiil se\ en years ago. 




Benjamin Chase Dean. 

hi, w, Bkxjamix Chask, was born in Lowell, 
Mass., March 3, 1843. Gradual e Brown I'niver- 
sity, 1X04. Assistant Clerk Massachusetts Senate 
1804-186S. Admitted to bar in 1S67. Priyate 
Secretary to Governor Talbot in 1874, and was 
Assistant Inspector General on his si a IT. Deputy 
Insurance Commissioner in 1875. Presidenl 
Lowell Common Council in 1876. Superinten- 
dent Manchester Print Works from 1S76 to 1901. 
Representative from Brookline in the Legislature, 
1890-1903. Hied in Brookline, January 26, 1005. 



Stephen Holbrook Rhodes. 

bin no s, Si i ci 1 1 \ Holuhook, president "I t he 
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company 
I r. mi IS79. was born in Franklin, Norfolk County, 
Massachusetts, November 7, 1825. His lather, 
Stephen Rhodes, was a son of Stephen and Anna 
(Daniels) Rhoades, and a descendant from Henry 
w Ihi came from [England In Massachusetts and 
settled in Lynn in 1040. He married Betsey, 
daughter of Elijah and Sarah ( Pratt ) Bird of 
Eoxboro. Stephen Holbrook Rhodes attended 
i he I hi hi ic scIk Mils and Bristol Academy, Taunton, 
and (iii graduating engaged in the mercantile and 
manufacturing line as clerk, and subsequently en- 
gaged m life insurance as a s ilicitor ami agent in 
which hi' was eminently successful. He sen'ed 
t he ( ii v nf Taunton as member of t he Board of 
Aldermen in 1867, as mayor, IS67, 1868 and 1869. 
lie also represented the first 1 iristol disl rid in the 

Slate Senate. 1870 and 1871, where lie served on 

important committees bearing on insurance hi- 
ts He served the commonwealth as depot \ 
insurance commissioner, 1874-79, being appointed 

Slater inissioner in 1874 by acting Governor 

Talbot. He resigned the position of State Insur- 
ance Commissioner in the spring of In 70 to accept 
the presidency of the John Hancock Mutual Life 
insurance Company which organization had been 
chartered in 1861, and lie held t he nil ice for over 

twenty-six years to the great benefit of the com- 
pany and the satisfacti f its policy holders. 

I le w as married November 27, In 17. to Elizabeth 
M., daughter of Charles and Hannah (Shaw) God- 
frey, and a descendant from Captain Richard 
Godfrey, an officer in the Colonial army which 
marched to t he defence of Crown Point , N. V. , in 
1755 and to Pert William Henry, Lake George, in 
August, 1757; and from Brigadier-General George 
Godfrey who commanded the Bristol comity 
brigade at the outbreak of the Revolut ionary war 
in 1775. Their two children wen- Henry Hol- 
brook, burn November 6, 1848, died September 20, 
1854, and Anne Elizabeth, burn April 30, 1851, 
married Lieut, .lames M. Grimes, II. S. N. Mr. 
Rhodes removed from Taunton to Boston, Mass., 
in 1n7-"> w here he continued to reside, his residence 
in 1905 beiiej "HI Commonwealth Avenue. He 
was elected to membership in the Exchange Club 
and in the Boston Society of Natural History, 
lie was also a member of the Roxbury Charitable 
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Edward Russell. 

Ui --M.i.. Euw \hd, was burn in North "i ar- 
mouth, Cumberland county, Maine, in 1S20. He 
was the sun of Cieneral Edward Russell, a promi- 
ncnt citizen of 1 hal town. 

Hi- early education was derived from oppor- 
tunities afforded by the Academies al North 
Yarmouth, CJorham and Portland, Maine. 

Having given up the idea of a college course, he 
entered l)lr employ of the well known house ol 
Hurd, Hutchins w Skinner, Boston, Wes1 India 

,, Is and groceries. While yd a lad he was 

promoted to the responsible position of I k- 

keeperin the Chariest own store carried on by the 
same linn. Following this engagement, he be- 
came the book-keeper for two years in a bank in 
Charlestown. 

1,, 1MJ Mf. Russell became a partner with 
David Dow, under the firm name of Do" & Rus- 
sell, groceries and ship stores, •' mercial Street. 

Boston. This was terminated in 1S44, when he 
entered the service of the Mercantile Agency in 
,.„,_,,,,, f oun ded two years previously by Hon. 



Lewis Tappan. of Now Vork. Becoming its duel 
elerk, he followed up the method and system es- 
tablished, adding such improvements as the con- 
tinuous enlargement of the business required. A 
..hange was made in 1S53, and the firm name of 
the Mercantile Agenc> became Kdward Russell & 
, ■,, M r . Russell being the controlling spirit ol the 
( , n'oern, until 1S9S, when he retired and was suc- 
ceeded in Boston by the R. G. Dun Co. 

His success has shown his ability. October K. 
is-l.V Mr. Russell was married to Man W. Field, 
of North Yarmouth, Maine, by whom he had three 
cdiildren. all of whom died. 

His first wife having deceased, Mr. Russell was 
married in June, 1*76, to Gertrude, younger 
daughter of the late Loring Wheeler, of East port, 

Manic 

Mr. Russell was long a member of the New His- 
,,„.„..,! Genealogical Society, and his residence is 
in Brookline. 

Edward W. E. Thompson. 

Thompson, Edward W. E., was born in San- 
ford, Maine, March 11, IS4S. He came to Boston, 
Mass.,whena lad, and was educated in the Brook- 
line grammar and Roxbury Latin Sri Is. 

[n 1S70, he graduated from the Harvard Law 
School and was admitted to the Massachusetts 
,,.,,.,„ ,s71. He never engaged in active practice, 
as his time was chiefly engaged in the manage- 
ment of private property. 

For several vears he served the town of Brook- 
line as a member of the Tree Planting Committee: 

he was also one of the original members ol the 
Riverdale Casino, acting as Treasurer for four 
vears. His associates in the Casino say oi him. 
'■■I'. W. 1-:. Thompson was respected, honored, and 
loved for his sterling character, strong integrity 
and unimpeachable ma. . line-, which evinced 
t h „ S e attributes found only in Cod's best men. 

For several vears he was a member oi the 
[oseph Warren Commandery of Knight Templars 
of Ruxburv, and President of the "Boston 
Parents' Association for Deaf Children." which he 

helped to establish. _ 

Mr Thompson married in October. 18,0. Ruth 

H .laughterofNahumWard.ofRoxbury. I 

had three children, a daughter and two sons. 
Mr Thompson died suddenly of pneumonia, 

afteran'illnessof three clays, on February 1 1004. 

a , I,,, home on Francis Street, Brookline, Mass. 



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Lionel J. A. L. Norman. 

Norman, l.io\i i .1. \ I, . financier, lawyer 
.•mil trustee, was horn in New Vork City, April 17. 
I Mi'i lli- Fal her, Li< me] A. .1. Norman, an 
English gentleman, was a memher of t lie well- 
known Norman family of Cambridge, England. 
Lionel, A. ,1. married Marie Anita Bolton Lowther, 
..I' (iloucestershire, England, the mother of the 
ui 'iri of i his sket i-li. 

hionel Norman was educated in private schools, 
supplemented hy several years of travel in v ;i ri > . 1 1 - 
parts nf the world. He afterward entered the 
Mass. Institute of Technology when' In- studied 
I'm' three years, and then attended Boston I'ni- 
versity from which he received I he degree of LL. I'.. 

lie has been identified with large financial in- 
terests fur many years, has acted as trustee let" 
large estates ami engaged in I he practice of law 

Mi'. Norman is considered In he a man ol wide 
information. He ha.- contributed many articles 
;iinl essays, mi a variety nf subjects, to magazines 
and other publications; and has been prominent 
in Brookline public affairs though never having 



held public office. He was married January Hi. 
1890, tu Florence Sprague nf Providence, Rhode 
Island, daughter nf Byron Sprague and grand- 
daughter ui' I iiited States Senator Sprague, 
deceased, of the same State. Ex-Governor Wil- 
liam Sprague, nf Rhode Island, who was also in 
t he United States Senate, is Mrs. Norman's cousin 
Mr. and Mr>. Lionel Norman have one child, a 
-mi. Lionel Aubrey, born < >cti her ' , ISfll. 

James Robert Dunbar. 

Dr.Nii.wi, .1 vmf.s In i'm i; i . lawyer, judge of the 
Massachusetts Superior Court, State Senator, 
president V M. C. A. Evening Law Schools, was 
born in Bittsfield, Berkshire county, Massachu- 
setts, December 23. LS47. lli- father, Henry 
William Dunbar, son of John and Ann (Delmage) 
Dunbar of Scotch descent, was a manufacturer oi 
w i H ilen-. a man of integrit \ . gener.isil \ a ml indus 
try. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rebecca 
Tragan/a and Henry Richards el' St. Erth's, 
Cornwall, England. James Robert Dunbar as a 
child had uniformly good health, was lend nf out 
door sports, fishing, etc. His mother died when 
he w.-i- eight years eld Me was lend nf reading 
history, biography, and travel. He passed 
through I he primary, grammar and high schools, 
and wasgraduatcdat WilliamsColloge, \ I '■ . 1,X~1. 
lie si iidied law iii 1 he office of Mill on B. Whitney 
al We-t field, Mass . wa- admit ted tu I he bar in 
I.N7-1, and he w a- a t once admit ted as a partner in 
Mr. Whitney's law business, lie was married 
May l.">. 1ST"), tu Harriet I'eirce, daughter nf 
( leorge A. and Electa N. I Lincoln) Walton, nf 
We-i Newton, Mass. ami of the six children born 
ul' this marriage live were living in I !)().">. lb' 
made his home in West field, where he served as 
chairman of t he school cum mil lee. and in ISS5 and 
Ivti was a Senator in the Massachusetts legisla- 
ture, lb- was appointed in INNS one ul' t he judges 
uf i he superior court nf Massachusetts by Gover- 
nor Vines, and he served on the superior bench, 
i !)S. In ls',17 he was made chairman ol the 
Taxation Commission and after retiring from the 
bench he engaged in the practice of his profession 
in Boston. Hi- club membership includes the 
New Ugonquin, the Agricultural, the Curtis, the 
Beaconandthc Economic, all of Boston, He is a 
Congregationalist in church affiliation and a Re- 
publican in party politics. He resides at 156 
Mason Terrace, Brookline. 



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John A. Kohl. 

Kohl, John A., a residenl of Brookline n num- 
ber of years, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. 
H,- father, (leorge A. Kohl, was an extensi e 
brewer in Lambertville, N. J. After completing. 
his school training at public schools and the 
Acadeim al Easton, he learned the business ol 
brewing' ale in his father's establishment, which 
b e had conducted al Lambertville, X. J., from a- 
bout LS40. Having thoroughly mastered the 
brewer's art, he came to Boston to take the p< si 
tinn of brew master in the Norfolk Brewery, 
owned by A. Richardson, where lie remained mi- 
ni 1S70, when he formed a partnership with An- 
drew J. Houghton in the business of manufactur- 
ing ale! In 1S75 they purchased the old Jutz 
property and established the Vienna Brewen 
which proved a very profitable investment. Hi 
was thoroughly honorable in his business methods 
His fellowship affiliation was with the Masonic 
and odd Fellow orders, ha ;ii een a member ol 
the Leni Lenape Lodge of Lambertville, New 
Jersey, the Washington Lodge, and Massasoil 
rampmenl of Bi ston. He died in Brookline 
Mass., Aug. 2, 1001. 



Reuen Thomas, M.A., Ph.D., D.D. 

Thomas, Ri i i n, son of William and Ann Cotton 
fWilkins) Thomas, was born in Walmly, Warwick- 
shire England, June 14, 1S40. His ancestors 
were representatives of old Warwickshire families. 

He was first in educational training in the gram- 
mar school, Sutton, Coldfield, Warwickshire: 
,,,,,,, in diversity College, London, IS62, M. A. 
and I'll. D., by examination (Rostock 1 .) lS6o. 
',!,, revived in 1SS7 the honorary degree of D. D. 
from Bowdoin College, Maine. 

1„. Thomas began the ministry as assistant to 
|;,.x Xewman Hall. LL. B., of Christ Church, 
London, afterwards was pastor of Berkley Street 
Church (Conn i Liverpool, whence he was called 
t o succeed Rev. Dr. Andrew Reed, the great 
philanthropist, al Wycliffe chapel, London. He 
was called to Harvard Church, Brookline, m IS/o, 
where he has since ministered. Dr. Thomas 
married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth (James) Cotton, but there were ■lnldrcn 

|,v the union. October 24th, 1005, In n e«I for 
,,,.,„! wife Lydia Cotton, daughter of William 
an ,l Ann Cotton, of Gloucestershire, England. 
II,. !- the author of "Through Death to Life." 



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" I >i\ ine Sovereignty," "< Irafenburg People," and 
several pamphlet s. 

1 )r. Thomas was for several \ ears a governor oi 
the London Hospital, and is a life member of 
several literary and benevolent sociel ies in Europe 
and America. 

||r is a contributor to leading religious news- 
papers and reviews on both sides ol the Atlantic. 

Theodore Lyman. 

I.'.mw. Theodokk, soldier, naturalist, repre" 
sentative in the United States Congress, fish com- 
missioner, trustee of the I'eabody Education 
Fund; was bom in Waltham, Mass., August 23. 
In:;:;, son of Theodore and Man E. (Henderson) 
Lyman; grandson of Theodore and Lydia 
i Williams) Lyman : a direct descendant from 
Richard and Sarah (Osborne) Lyman the pro- 
genitors of the Lymans in America. Richard 
l.vinan came from Essex, England, to Boston. 
Massachuset ts Ba \ Colonv in 1031 . and removed 
from Charlestown. Mass., to Hartford, Connecti- 
cut in 1635. Theodore Lyman, Si\. was a distin- 
guished philantliropist, legislator, Mayor ol Bos- 
ton, and aut lair. 

Theodore Lvinan, Jr., was graduated at Har- 
vard, A B . IS")"). S. B., 1S5S. He was assistant 
in zoiilogv al tin' Harvard I'niversity Museum 
IS60-61; studied iii Euro])e lSGl-G.'-J ; was a vol- 
unteer aid with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 
on I he staff of Gen. George (!. Mead, commanding 
the Army of the Potomac 1X63-05; was mustered 
mil April 20, 1X65, and returned to his home in 
Brookline, Mass. He was fish commissioner for 
the State of Massachusetts IS65-S2, and as such 
lie made I lie first successful scientific experiments 
for the cultivation and protection of food fishes 
made bv :m\ State in the I'nited States, lie re- 
presented t lie ninth Massachusetts district in the 
I'ah Congress 1SS3-S5; was an overseer <>l Har- 
vard I'niversity 1X6S-XS; fellow of the American 
Academv of Arts and Sciences; honorary member 
of the National Academv of Sciences and a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts Historical Societj : he 
was a trustee of I he I'eabody Educational fund, 
and :i trust if t he I'eabody Museum of Archeo- 
logy and of I he Massachusetts Stale Reform 
School. He was also president of the Boston 
I mm School, which institution was liberally en- 
dowed by his father. He was the author of 
numerous reports and scientific papers relating to 



his professional and official investigations, cover- 
ing eight to ten subjects. He received the 
honorary degree of LL. I)., from Han ard Univer- 
sity in 1X91; was a generous contributor to the 
building of Memorial Hall connected with the 
University and served on its building committee. 
He left i" Harvard University' his collection of 
scientific books for use in the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoologj . and left to the college SIO.OOO I 
Lyman was married Nov. 2S, 1X56, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of < leorge R., and Sarah (Shaw i Russell, 
who survives him. He died al Nahant, Mass.. 
September 9, I' 97. 




Charles L. Edgar. 

Ein;.\h Cit vui.Ks L., was born near Princeton, N. 

.1 I >ec . 1N00. ( Iraduated fr Rutgers College 

in IS! 2. I legree, I >. A.. and E. E. < ienera] 
Superintendanl Edison Electrical Illuminating 
Co., in ISXO. Sin i I- ivelv f leneral Manage] 
\"ice-l'resident , and President since 1X99. Elec- 
ted President National Electric Light Association 
in 190.",. President Boston Electric Light (' 
Somerville Electric Light Co., VYoburn Light, 
I leu i and Power Co., Newton and Watertown ( i 
Light ( 'ompanv . 



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Franklin W. Hobbs. 

HnliliS, I'l; l\kl,I\ ^ 'kiI'Ii in IJoxbuiV, 

September - 1. lf-'CS, I lived in Brookline 

lS7o. He attended a private school for a 
few years, and later was graduated in in the 
Pierce Grammar School. He fitted al the high 
school for the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, where he was graduated in ISN!) in t lie de- 
partment of mechanical engineering, in v hicli de- 
partment he remained for a year and a hall as a 
member of the staff of instruction. In 1X91 he 
entered the employ of the Arlingti n Mills, and is 
now the treasurer and executive officer of thai 
ci i'pi rut ii n. The Arlingl i n .Mills, located in 
Lawrence Mass. is one oi tin' la rgesl textile mills 
in t he \\o I'M. employing •">. i( )() people and engaged 
in t he manufacl Lire of hi t h w< ml and ci itti u. 

Mr. Hobbs has been identified with the busini -- 
and social life of the town, and has served on va- 
ra ius pi mimil tei s, and d ir si nie i ime has I icen the 
chairman of the School Committee. He is a mcm- 

I i r of the Education Society, the Historical So- 
ciety, and a vestryman of St. Paul's Church. Mr. 

II hbs has always heen interested in educational 
mat ters, and ■ - ; filial t rustees of t he 



Lowell Textile School. In 1900 < iovernor Crane 
appointed him a State trustee of thai institution, 
which position he still holds. He i- a direcb i i f 
the Arkwrighl Mutual tin' Insurance Comp 
of the Home Market Club, a member of the 
N'ational Association of Wool Manufacturers and 
of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Asso- 
ciation, also of the Technology, Country and 
("nil .ii ( 'lulis. Ho is also a member of the Sons of 
the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars. 
Mr. Hobbs was married in 1S92 to lam' II. 
Whitman, a daughter of Mr. William Whitman, 
i if i li iddard A\ enue. They ha \ e fi air chili 
and reside at Xo. 7s Upland Road. 




Charles W. Holtzer. 

lli ii.r/i n, Chahi.ks W.. presidenl of the Holt- 
er-Cabol Electric Ci iinpany of t his town, is one ol 
the men whom Brooklinians are proud to acknowl- 
edge as a -ol f-mai le man < it a lla i rs. 

Ho was horn in Germany, and was educated in 
thecil y i'l Karlsruhe, al the I nsl ii ute "I' La I mi- 
taine. Later In- was apprenticed ;<> In- irraiid- 
father to Irani the machinist trade: hut, becom- 
ing dissatisfied. In- came to this count r\ in iStiO. 



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He firsl engaged in experimental work upon 
:i n tilery ammunition, but later came to Brookline, 
rinding employment with K. S. Ritchie .V Sons, 
philosophical instrument makers. 

In 1 s 7 -l Mr. Holtzer started in business for 
liiniself as a maker of electrical apparatus in a 
small room in the Harvard Building. There be 
remained for about five year.-, his business con- 
stantly increasing; and his firsl shop was built 
on Boylston Street. Two years later it was 
found necessary to enlarge this shop, and soon al- 
ter lie purchased the Catholic church building on 
Station Street. Here ii was thought he would 
find ample room for years to come. At that time 
the general offices of the company were on Frank- 
lin Street, Boston, bin at tin- writing the main 
offices are in the factory building, with branch 
offices in New ^i ork and ( 'hicago. 

The next step in the development of the plant 
was the erection «'t' an (ilhee building and of a 
power-house en Andem Place in the leaf oi the 
wooden structure, and later a four-story brick 
faeb >ry building was erected, having an immense 
frontage on Station Street. The past year, the 
company's business having outgrown t his big fac- 
tory building, a large building en Albany Street. 
Boston, was leased tor a term of years, as an ad- 
junct to the plant. This is being used lei- the 

large machine Work. 

The Helt zer-< 'abot Fled ric < 'ompany was incor- 
porated in 1SS9. Mr. Holtzer has held the p ■ 
tioii of president of the company since that time. 

From a payroll of 30, when the business was es- 
tablished en Station Street, to one el' 500 at the 
present time, is a vast stride, and indicates, as in 
no ot her way, the immense growth of t he business 
of t he company . 

Horace James. 

.1 ames, Horai i , was born in Jamaica Plain 
t ricl of the old tow n of Roxbury, Ma — .. Feb. in. 
IM 1 ;. Came to Brookline. Juh . 1' 19. Mason, 
Contractor and Builder. Kstablished in business, 
July, LS55. Selectman, Overseer »f the Poor, and 
member of the Beard of Health, Surveyor of 
Highwavs. Trustee ol Brookline Savings Bank. 
Vice-President of Savings Bank. Chosen Select- 
man in March. |Mi7. and has served continuously 
since, except four years; was Chairman ol tin 
Board for eight years, from March. 1S9I5, to 
March, 1901. 




Charles Lincoln Ayling. 
Ayling, Chaiu.es Lixcoi.x, born Januarj 22d, 
1S75, Centerville, Mass. On account of appoint- 
ment <>f fat her. August us 1 ». A\ ling, to Adjutant- 
Generalship of New Hampshire, moved to Con- 
cord of that State, iii 1S79,. Finished High 
School in thai city and employed with the bank- 
ing house of K. II. Rollins iV Sons in September, 
1S92. This house moved to Boston soon after 
that dale, and continued with them until the 
breaking out el the Spanish-American war. 
Temporarily withdrew and enlisted; received 
commission of captain, and A. A. A. G. from the 
Governor of New Hampshire, ami at the begin- 
ning of the war was put under special detail to 

thoroughly equip the New Hampshire Volunteers. 
At the close of the war returned with K. H. Rol 
lins iV Sons, and shortly removed, to Chicago, tak- 
ing charge of their Central Western business. In 
March, 1S99, formed a partnership with Mont- 
gomery Rollins, who withdrew his interest from 
the above named house, the new firm locating at 
No. 27 State Street , under t he name of Montgom- 
ery Rollins >V ( 'o. In .lime. 1902, Mr. Rollins re- 
tired from business and the partnership, under 
the name of Baker, Ayling <V Company, was 
formed, iinw in business at No. 50 Congress Street 



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George Henry Forsyth. 



Forsyth, George Henry, was born in Brookline 
November 27, 1854, the son of William and Jane 
i Bennett) Forsyth. His am estors were, on the pater- 
nal side of French-Scotch, and on the maternal side 
of French-English descent. Capt. Alexander Forsyth, 
the first member of the Forsyth family who came to 
America, was born at Failzerton Manour, Ayrshire, 
Scotland, in [689 and settled in Boston in the year 
j 715, or 85 years after the settlement of the town. A 
man of education, wealth, energy and refinement, 
he entered actively into the life of the New World, 
and was prominent in the 
early affairs of Boston, 
Hi? military experiem e 
caused him to be 1 In isen 
as 1 aptain in the Colonial 
regiment. In 1 724 he was 
a 1 1 immissioner of the 
Colony to draw up a 
treaty with the Western 
Indian^ of New England. 
In 1 733 he was elei ted a 
selei iman ot l!i >-t< in, and 
served in that « apai itv for 
ten years, and in 1 74 j he 
was one of the military 
commission to plan the 
fortitic ations about Bosti in. 

William Forsvth, a great 
grandson of Capt. Alex 
ander Forsyth, and the 
father of George Henry 
Fors) tit bei ame interested 
in the Boston Melting Co., 
(the original manufai 
Hirers of villi anized 

rubber g Is), about 1855 

and the famih moved to 
Roxburv « here ( ieorge 1 1, 
received his education in the publii scl Is. 

Three other sons of William Forsyth, -till living, 
were born in Brookline and have been for mum 
\ ear- connei ted with the Boston belting Co., oci up\ - 
ing the following important executive positions. 

James Bennett Forsyth, President and General 
Manager; Thomas Alexander Forsyth, Manufactur- 
ing Agent; [ohn Hamilton Forsyth, Superintendent. 




('it 1 iko 1 Henry 



George Henry Forsyth married, February 10, 1875, 
Man E. \V. (wh 1 survives), the daughter of Joseph 
and Caroline T. (Furber) Drew of Dover. N. II., 
families with an ancestry in that region of several 
generations. He became connected, in 1878, with 
the Boston belting Co., with which his lather and 
brother- were also associated, and continued active 
and prominent in it- affair- for more than a quarter 
of a centurv. lie was for main' years a director and 
assistant manager of that company, travelling exten- 
-ivelv in it- interests and was well known to many 
prominent business men 
throughout the United 
States and Canada, by 
whom he was very highly 
esteemed. He removed 
tc 1 brookline September 1, 
[880, and continued to 
reside there until he 
died September 6, 1906. 
lie was one of the 
original member- of the 
Trade Club of Boston 
and also of the New 
England Rubber Club. 
Although a man of 
dome-tic tastes, a great 
lover of his home and 
never a seeker of public 
life or office of any 
sort, Mr. Forsvth was 
ahvavs deeply interested 
in Brookline and in all 
that pertained to its wel- 
fare, beauty and develop- 
ment. 

Perse mail) < reorge I fenry 
Forsyth was wonderfully 
attractive; of medium 
height, with a well knit figure, dark eyes, regular 
features and thick, wavy hair, he was always a 
striking figure and withal a manly one. His kindly 
nature and thoughtfulness of cithers made- him a 
great many friends in brookline and elsewhere, 
and his numerous acts of generosity were done 
so quietly that his charity was known only to th» 
rec ipieril and the donor. 



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B. F. Keith. 

Keith, B. 1'., whom Brookline has claimed as 
one of its most progressive citizens for the past 
fifteen years, is :i native of New Hampshire. He 
is one of the most prominent men in theatricals 
to-day, and yet, in spite of the rinse application 
to In-- far-reaching enterprises, Mr. Keith finds 
many opportunities to demonstrate his good citi- 
zenship in strenuous advocacy of all local measures 
tending t<> the general welfare of the public. 
Having no business interests other than theatri- 
cals, it is in that respect alone to which this 
biography of Mr. Keith will refer. We, therefore, 
quote liberally from the leading theatrical pub- 
lication, the New York Clip/iir, of recent date, 
as follows: 

"The man of the hour- in vaudeville- is 
B. I ■'. Keith, the originator of the continuous per- 
formance, which lias new reached the twentv- 
h i -i \ ea i i 'I its existence. The ver\ recent merger 
df the great vaudeville interests of the country 
has brought Mr. Keith forward as the dominant 
figure, with others, throughout the proceedings. 

Benjamin Franklin Keith was born in I lillsboro 
Bridge, New Hampshire, the youngest of a familv 



ol eight, whose father was of Scotch parentage 
and the mother, a descendant of the French. 
Rural district schools and the village academy 
gave him his rudimentary education, and he was 
content with a fanner's life until his eighteenth 
year. Eventually he found himself in Boston, 
where mi January S, 1S83, modern vaudeville, 
as exemplified in the reigning Keith entertain- 
ment, had its inception confessedly a most 
modest one in every way — and from this singu- 
larly insignificant beginning lias evolved the 
twentieth century completeness of vaudeville 
wiili its gorgeously appointed, theatres and fault- 
less entertainments. On July 6, 1885, was 
created that strikingly original idea, the con- 
tinuous performance, which marked an epoch in 
theatrical history. Palatial edifices have been 
reared especially for the production of Keith 
vaudeville in many cities, notably in Philadelphia 
and Providence. The dedication of the Phila- 
delphia house on November 10, 1902, caused 
staid, demure Quake rt own to sit up straight, 
rub its eyes and marvel tremendously. Its 
amazement has never ceased, and small wonder, 
for the new Chestnut Street house is as an Alad- 
din'.- wish creation. From erecting beauteous 

temples, Mr. Keith, of recent years, has devoted 

his attention to augumenting the scope of his 
enterprises, until now his interests in theatricals 
in territorial extent reach literally from ocean to 
ocean." 

Despite an incessant activity in his business 
career. Mr. Keith has found time to interest him- 
self in local civic questions and assist in procuring 
relief from irksome conditions, which have clearly 
demonstrated his keen perception in municipal 
matters. This was shown in the removal of the 

tracks on Treinont Street, when the Strongest 

opponents of the measure to abolish them at the 
outset, were eventually found to be those who 

were mosl highlj pleased in il nd. Mr. Keith 

clearly saw it was a railroad issue for personal 
ends only, and. together with a do/en associates, 
he strenuously favored the abolishment, in the 
successful accomplishment of which, quite as 
much credit, he insists, belongs to all as to one. 
He is st rem ion sly opposed to any legislation that 
would tend to curtail the public's privileges, or 
in any way infringe upon the public's rights, 
regardless of all faction.-. He is a strong believer 
ill having all questions in which the public at 



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[ ar ge is interested decided by the vote of the 
people. He is proud of Brookline and glad thai 
it is a town, and hopes it will always remain so. His 
liking in tins respect was formed in early years, 
for he was reared in a country town with a board 
of selectmen, the same as Brookline, and to that 



the Corinthian, and the Boston, of Boston: the 
Rhode Island, the New York, the Larchmont, 
and the Columbia, clubs of New York. In ad- 
dition , he is a member of the Boston Athletic 
Association and the Riverdale Casino of Brook- 
line 20th Century and Economic Clubs, Boston. 




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fact is attributed the strong affection he holds 
for Brookline. Yachting is a diversion which 
Mr. Keith follow, with uncommon enthusiasm. 
an d he is a member of no loss than seven of the 
leading vacht clubs. They are the Eastern, 



Mr Keith's residence is at No. 310 Kent Street, 
Longvvood, Brookline, and he has a charming 
summer home in Pevereaux, which was formerly 
the residence of the late Daniel Ford, the I. .under 
of the Youth's ( 'ompanion. 



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James J. Hughes. 

Hughes, James .)., dry-goods merchant of 
Boston, was born m Leeds, England, October 13, 
1853. He was the son of John Briggs Hughes, a 
British Army officer. Mr. James .1. 1 1 ui; ht-s re- 
ceived his education in the schools of his native 
place, Lpon leaving school he decided to come 
to the 1 'nit c(| Si ate-, which he did, and set I led in 
Boston. He connected himself with the old dry- 
goods firm of Chandler >V Co., on Winter Street. 
where he remained for some years. Wishing to 
enter business for himself he resigned his position 
and became interested In several well-known 
firms in Worcester and Lawrence. Desiring to 
return to the dry -goods business in Boston, he be- 
came t reasurer of the firm of 'I'm mi hy J. Smith & 
Co.. on Washington Street, Roxbury, where he 
remained until the time of his death, December 20, 
1905. 

Mr. Hughes was a man of remarkable ability 
and judgment, fair-minded and honorable, and 
enjoyed the respect ami confidence of all those 
who had dealings with him. He was married 
June 10. lN77.to Miss Ida E. Balcom, of Provi- 
dence, R 1. Two daughters were bom to them 

Marion and Rachel Balcom Hughes. 



Mr. Hughes was a resident of Brookline up to 

t he t mie ol his deal h. and Ins w iilow and children 
st ill make it l heir home. 



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Joseph Foster Green. 

(iiii.i.v Jnsj-.rii LosTKii, of Brookline, naval 
officer, was born in Topsham, Maine, Now '_'4, 
1811; son of Peter Hazeltine and Margaret 
(Foster) (liven, lie was warranted a midship- 
man m the l'. S. Navy, Nov. 1. 1827, and was 
promoted, passed midshipman June lu, 1833; 
lieutenant Feb. 2S, 1 838; commander Sept. 11, 
1855; captain July lii, 1862; commodore July 24, 
1867, and rear-admiral .Inly 13, 1870. lie was 
reined from active service, Nov. '_'.">. hs7'_'. lie 
served on board the sloop-of-war I <ni<lnli<i ill the 
Brazilian squadron, 1830-33; studied at the naval 
school, Norfolk. Va . 1833-34; served on I he fri- 
gate Potomac of i he Mediterranean squadron, 
1835-37; on the -loop Erie ol' the West Indian 
squadron, 1840; on the frigate Columbus of i he 
Brazilian squadron, 1843-45; and on the ship-of- 
the-line Ohio of the Pacific squadron, 1846-50, 
during which time he look part on the western 
coast of Mexico in the operations against the 
Mexican ports. 1846-47. He was stationed at the 
Boston navv vard, 1850-52, on ordnance dutv; 



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was on ordnance duty. Washington, D.C., 1852- 
.">4. and on duty at the Naval Academy, Annapo- 
lis, 1S55-5S. He was in command oi the steam 
sloop Canandaigua of the South Atlantic squad- 
ron, 1862-64, and he took part in the bombard- 
ment of Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, taking the 
Canandaigua over the bar in Chariest on harbor 
himself. Admiral Dahlgren having failed to carry- 



congress, as he had been regularly retired from 
active service, Nov. 25, 1872. He relinquished 
his hist command afloat, the U. S. S. Powhatan, 
May 28, 1873, and lived in Brookline, Mass. 
Dartmouth college conferred upon him t he honor- 
ary degree of A.M. in 1S61. He was married in 
1S40 to Ruth Elizabeth Bowman. They had four 
children; Albert, died in infancy; Frank Hazel- 




THE THOMAS J PARSONS HOUSE 
Fonnerh on Cottage Street, BrooUinr The 1., i.- Mr. Parsons was oi f the town's prominent men See sketch. 



out the previous arrangement for sending him a 
pilot, lie was mi ordnance duty at Charleston 
navy yard, 1866-68; in command of the Southern 
squadron of the Atlantic fleet, 1S70-71, and in 
command of the North Atlantic station, 1872-73, 
being retained in his command by a special act of 



tine, deceased; Etta, Mrs. Robert VV. Lord, de- 
ceased; Margaret, Mrs. Henry M. Whitney. Mr. 
Green died in Brookline, Mass., bee. 9, 1897, age 
si; years, 16 of which was spent in the service of 
Ins country. 



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John Prcscott Webber. 

\Y I 1:1:1 ];, JoHN I'hkscott, was born ill New 

Portland, Maine, Junr '_':!. 18IV2; lie is the son of 
Israel and Hannah I'resrotl Webber. 

His father was a seafaring man, in the merchant 
marine ; he died in 1 > 68 

John P., the subject of tins sketch, attended the 
county schools m childhood and obtained the 
rudiments <<i a fair business education, but was a 
pupil very little after he was thirteen years old, 
except in the great instruction school of the world. 
At 1 he age nt' 17 years he started a count ry store, 
in Ripley, Maine, with great success, having re- 
ceived an established credit from Nash, Cullender 
& Co., wholesale grocers of Boston. Mr. Webber 
met all his obligations and has continued to do -.1 
evei since. In 1864, lie -eld out his stock and 
moved to Bangor, where he began operations in 
land and lumbering; at thai time he paid taxes 
in inure than one hundred townships. 

In the year 1SS0, he came to Boston and re- 
sided on Columbus Ave., until Inn.!, when he 
moved to Brookline, occupying a residence on 
Kent Street, which he built; lie now residef en 
Beacon Street. Brookline, occupying a palatial 
residence which he built in 1895. 



Mr. Webber was first married in March, 1851, 
to Miss Annie Sophia Robinson of East Corinth, 
Maine; three children were born, Charles Prescott, 
Frank Roscoe and Frederick, deceased. Mrs. 
Webber died m Bangor, August, 1S69. Mr. 
Webber's second wile was Miss Cam Holmes of 
Bangor; three children were [■» in Jane, John 
Prescott, Jr., (who was drowned) ami Channing 
Webber. Mrs. Webber died in Brookline, 1890. 

Mr. Webber married the third lime, taking fora 
wile. Minnie S. Peters of Xeedham, Mass.; they 
have one child, a boy, born in 1896. Mr. Webber 
is quite extensive!) engaged in the real estate 
business 



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William James McDonald. 

Mi I>ii\\i,i>. William James, a resident of 
Brookline, and a progressive and enterprising 
business man, engaged in real estate mortgage, 
and insurance brokerage. Mr. McDonald, a son 
of .lames W. and Mary A. (Percy) McDonald, 
was burn October 11. 1869, in the northern part 
of New York SI ate, and was educated in t he pub- 
lic schools of his native place. Wishing to enter 
business life, he left School at the age of nineteen, 
and settled in Nashua, X. II. Nashua, however, 



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BROOKLINE, .1 /. 1 SS. i CHUSE ITS 



did not offer a sufficient ly broad field for a profita- 
ble career, so lie left that place and came to Bos- 
ton. Opening an office then', he formed a real 
estate and insurance firm of Merrill and McDonald. 
A few years later he acquired Mr. Men-ill's 
interest and became the sole owner. Within a 
verv short period after coming to Boston, lie be- 
gan operations in Brookline real estate, and his 
transactions in that section have grown to a re- 



markable extent. By building residences of a 
very high class, thus bringing people of large 
means to the town, he has done much for the 
improvement and development oi Brookline. 
He is also interested in some of the largest land 
companies in Massachuset I - 

Mr. McDonald was married to Miss Maud A. 
Severance of Chelsea. June 7, 1N01. They 
have one child, a daughter, born in 1892. 







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Hampton Court. 

One of the finest types of architecture in 
Brookline is Hampton Court, situated at the 
corner of Beacon and St. Paul streets. This 
beautiful building is a hotel, conducted on the 
American plan, with an excellent restaurant "I 
sufficient size to accommodate not only the 



guests of I he house, but also a number of I he 
nearby residents, by whom it is much patronized. 
The clientele of the house may be best described 
by the word "exclusive". The proprietor is 
Mr. Harry L. Brown (a resident of Brookline). 
who is also the proprietor of The Victoria in 
Boston. Mr. Fred M. Crosby is the resident 
tnanagei 



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11KSID1 u] i c I'AllSoXS WIXTHKOP Ro.M) I'.ROoKLIXl 




KESIDFXC1 dl I P KISH I'RESCOTI STREET, BROOKLIXE 

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BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 




Charles P. Greenough. 
Greenough, Charles P., of Boston, is descended 
from William Greenough, who came from Lanca- 
shire, England, to Boston, Mass.. in 1648; his 
great, great grandfather Thomas Greenough, was 
one of Boston's selectmen during the Revolution- 
ary war, and his great grandfather, William Green- 
ough was for fiftv years pastor of a church in 
Xewton, succeeding Rev. John Eliot. His grand- 
father, also named William, a prominent Boston 
merchant, married Sarah Gardner, daughter oi 
John Gardner, of Leominster, Mass.. and a neice 
of Mrs. John Hancock. 

William W. Greenough, son of William just 
mentioned, and the father of the subject of this 
article, was treasurer of the Boston Gas Light 
Company for thirty-eight years and a trustee oi 
the Huston Public Library for thirty-two years. 

He married Catharine S. Curtis, daughter oi 
Charles Pelham Curtis, first city solicitor of Boston, 
and a law partner of Judge Benjamin H.Curtis. 

Charles P. Greenough, son of William W. and 
Catharine S. (Curtis) Greenough, was born July 
29th, 1844, in Cambridge, Mass. He was gradu- 



ated from the Boston Latin School in I860, being 

a 1'iaiiklm Medal Scholar and receiving several 
prizes for proficiency in his studies. 

He then entered Harvard University, where he 
hail a Detur, and from which he wa- graduated in 
in 1864. While in college lie was a member of the 
Institute of 1770. of the Hasty Pudding Club and 
of the Natural History Society. Soon after 
graduating he entered the Cnited States service 
in the blockading squadron on the I". S. Steamer 
Vanderbilt, where he remained several months, 
being stat ioned off the coast of North Carolina. 

He subsequently spent some time in travel in 
EgA pt, Turkey. Palestine, and the Holy Land, and 
in 1867 entered the Harvard Law School, from 
which he was graduated with the degree of LL. 
P.. in 1S69. He continued his legal studies in the 
office of Ropes >v Gray, of Boston, and was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk Par in December,1869. Im- 
mediately afterward he formed a copartnership 
withRobert M. Morse, Jr.. which continued under 
the firm name of Morse & Greenough and Morse, 
Stone & Greenough for ten years. Since 1880, 
Mr. Greenough has practiced alone. Mr. Green- 
ough is one of the leading members of the Suffolk 
Bar. He was counsel for the Boston Gas Light 
Company and for other gas corporations from 
1S69 to 1895, when he resigned, and since then he 
has devoted himself to the practice of hi.- pro- 
fession. As a counsellor and advocate he has 
achieved success and honor. In politics he is a 
Republican, 

Hewasan original member of the Bar Associa- 
tion of the city of Boston, in 1S76, and has served 
it as treasurer since 1S.S7. and president, for the 
vears 1902, 1903, 1904. He is the author of a 
''Digest of Gas Cases" published in 1883, and the 
editorofthe ninth edition of "Story, on Agency," 
and has made numerous addresses on the subject 
of water gas, and contributed several important 
articles to leading magazines and law journals. 
For seven vears he prevented the manufacture 
of water gas in Massachusetts, by appearing before 
the various committees of the Legislature. 

As a citizen he is public-spirited and enterpris- 
ing, and liberally encourages every worthy move- 
ment. He founded the Boston Legal Aid Society 
and has been it- president since 1900. He has 
also been a member of the standing committee 
„f the Diocese of Massachusetts for several 
vearSi and a trustee of the Boston Atheseum. 



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lie is a studenl of history ami of general 
litcratu it, a scholar endowed with rare intellectual 
attainments, and a man of the highest integrity 
and honor, lie is a member "I the Antiquarian 
Society of Worcester and of the New England I Ii>- 
toric Genealogical Society, ami a corresponding 
member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. 
June 11. 1S74, Mr. Greenough married Mary 
D wight Vose, of Boston, daughter of the late I bin. 
Henn Vose, associate Jutsice of the Superior 
Court of Mass. They have four children; Constance 
Pelham, Ruth Mary, Henry Vose, and Alfred. 



to Greenfield, Mass., where he became connected, 
both as printer and writer, with the Gazette and 
Courier. While here he met and married Miss 
Sarah F. Allen, daughter of Sylvester Allen. 
Eight children were born, two of whom are citizens 
of Brookline, Winthrop 1!. and Geo. Ripley. Mr. 
Jones was a prolific writer of fiction and was the 
founder and proprietor of Harry Hazel's Yankee 
Blade, a paper of greal popularity in its day: he 
was also a general contributor to other story 
papers. 

In polities, Mr. Jones was early in life a Whig 




UKSIDEXCK or \\\I. J. SULLIVAN, WIXSLOW KOAD. 



Justin Jones. 

Jones, Justix, an old time Boston editor and 
publisher, became a resilient of Brookline in 1S64, 
residing on Kent Street where he lived until his 
death, February 19th, 18S5). 

Mr. Jones was born in Brunswick, Maine, Oct. 
I. I SI I. and at the e:ni\ age of fourteen became 
apprenticed to a local printer. When about 
seventeen he located in Boston and became in- 
terested in a semi-monthly literary paper: after 
two vears retaining his Boston interests, he went 



ami served in the Mass. Legislative and City 
Government of Boston, and for many years was a 
director of public institutions of the city. As a 
Democrat he sen ed for twenty years on t he town 
committee, and was also one of the first board of 
registrars of voters appointed by the town. 

Socially and in his home he was a delightful 
man, always having something bright and enter- 
tainingto relate. He was one ofthe first to join the 
Brookline Club, and his kindly ways will long re- 
main in the memory of his many warm friends. 



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Eugene P. Carver. 
Chveu, E UGE ne P., is descended from Robert 
Carver, a nephew of John Carver, the first Gover- 
U()ro fthe Plymouth Colony, who came from near 
Plymouth, Devonshire, England, to Marshfield, 
M ass ., aboul 1627. Jonathan Carver, a descen- 
dant of the common ancestor, and the first white 
man after Hennipin to visit the source of the 
Mississippi River, wrote the work entitled 
" ^origines of America," the first book m the 
English language on the American Indians 
Capl Reuben Carver, great uncle of the subject of 
this article, captured the first English vessel in the 
Revolution, which was loaded with arms and 
munitions of war, and which he delivered over to 
Washington, then engaged in the siege of Boston. 
Mr Carver's ancestors have been ship builders, 
ship owners, and ship masters for two hundred 
years His great grandfather, Isaac, was a ship 
builder, and hi- grandfather, Woodburn Carver, 
and father, Nathan, were ship owners and sea cap- 
tains Onhis mother's side he is descended from 
Brian Pendleton, who came to Boston with John 
Winthrop,inl630, and who was the first survey or 

general, and made in the colony the first map ol 
Massachusetts. Resettled in Wat ertown, Mass., 
an d subsequently became one of the original set- 
tlers of Portsmouth, N. II. His grandson, Colonel 



William Pendleton, of Stonington, Conn., served 
,„ th e colonial wars, and his son l'erley was a 
lieutenant in the 1st. R. Q. Artillery in the war oi 
th e Revolution. Nathan Carver, the lather of 
the subject of this sketch, married Francis A., 
.laughter of Joseph Pendleton of Searsport, Me., 
, U1(] a granddaughter of William Pendleton, who 
was taken prisoner in the war of 1812. Herfather 
was a prominent ship master. 

Eugene P. Carver is the son of Capt. Nathan 
Carver and Francis A., daughter of Capt. Joseph 
Pendleton, his wife, and was born in Searsport, 
Me September 5, I860. He spent much of his 
boyhood at sea with his parents, going to all 

parts of the world. 

He attended the Polytechnic Institute in Brook- 
lyn, \. Y., and the public schools of Newburyport, 
Mass., and was graduated from the Boston High 
School in 1877. 

Uter having the advantages of a private tutor 
for a year, he entered the Boston University Law 
School and received his degree of LL. B.. there- 
from, in June. 1S82, having been admitted to the 
Suffolk Bar, the preceding month. He at once 
began active practice in Boston, at 28 State Street, 

where he still remains. In 1890 he formed a co- 
partnership with Edward E. Blodgett, which still 
continues under the firm name of Carver & Blod- 
„,.„ tne other partners, subsequently admitted, 
being Stephen R. Jones and Addison C. Burnham. 
He has been called upon in relation to this class 
of business to try cases in nearly every seaboard 
Sta te Fast of the Mississippi. Ill- ability as a 
counselor and advocate, his intimate knowledge 
of thelaw, his personal qualities and high charac- 
ter have brought him into special prominence, and 
have already won for him a recognized standing 
at the bar He has been eminently successful, 
and as a citizen as well as lawyer is highly es- 
teemed. He was admitted to practice before the 
ba r f the United States Supreme Court in 1SSS, 
and has tried a number of important cases in that 
tribunal He is a member of the Algonquin Club 
„f Boston, of the Boston Art Club and of the Bos- 
ton, American, and International Bar Associations, 

and resides in Brookline, Mass. 

Mr Carver was married on the 11th of August, 
i«86 to Mis- Clara •!'.. daughter of Hon. Robert 
p or ter,of Searsport. Me. They ha vefive children 
Francis A.. Eugene P. Jr.. Lois M., Clara, 
Nathan and Ransom F. 
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William Lincoln. 

Lincoln, William, was born in Falmouth, 
Mass., March S. 1N0S. lie was educated a1 the 
Derby Academy in Hingham, and graduated in 
1821. He came to [Boston and went into Deacon 
James Loring's printing office. After serving a 
year here, he wenl Wes1 to Caledonia, \. V.. and 
look a position in John Buttcrfield's store. In 
1826 he returned I" Boston, and went into Joshua 
Scars' store. In 1S20, lie entered the commission 
business on his own account, dealing in Xan- 



i nriicd i ci the nil business. Now came the ml dis- 
coveries and petroleum wells, anil Mr. Lincoln was 
i he second man to go into the manufacture of coal 
nil m ihis country, forming a partnership with 
William I ». Philbrick, establishing an agency in 
Titusville. and building a refinery in Ka-t Boston. 
After the dissolution of this firm, Mr. Lincoln 
built a large manufactory in East Cambridge. 
'I'lie business required the equipment oi a line oi 
schooners, to ply between Philadelphia and Bos- 
ton, for the transportation of the petroleum. In 
IS7'_\ the factory was destroyed by lire, and then 




RESIDENCE (>!• J. \V. PIEliCE, CHKSTXUT Hill. AVEXCE. 



tucket and New Bed ford oil. In Is:;, . he sold mil Mr. Lincoln and his sun. William F,., entered the 

to his brother, Henry Lincoln, and joining Major real estate business. Mr. Lincoln was a resident 



John Fairfield at Central Wharf, established the 
New Orleans packet-line, which sunn became the 
principal packet-line of Boston, and did a large 
business for years. He went to Californiain ls-l'.i. 
Mr. Lincoln left this firm and again joined his 
brother Henry, in India Street, establishing line* 



ui' Brookline for a number of years, and for sev en- 
teen years was a member of the board of assessors 
uf t lie town, during must of that time its chairman. 
Mr. Lincoln was married in Boston, in ls.'ls, to 
Mis? \Iarv M . daughter of David Francis, and 
had four sons, David !•".. Wm. I' . Rev. .lames 



of packet- to California and Australia, lie built (Mis. and the fourth, Walter Lincoln, is in the 

and sailed twenty ships and barks, retaining the insurance business in Boston. 



managing interests in all of them; but finally 
this business proving somewhat disastrous, ho re- 



Mr. Lincoln died in Brookline. May L'.'!, 1902, at 
the age of 04 years. 



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John A. Curtin. 

Ci iciix, John A., selectman of Brookline, was 
bom in Boston, April '■'<, 1870. He received his 
early education in the Boston public schools. He 
then attended the Mass. [nstitute of Technology, 
graduating with the class of 1892, with the degree 
of S. I'., in the department of Civil Engineering. 
After leaving Technology he went abroad and 
spent a year in the University of Berlin, Germany, 
and up in his return he entered the Boston Univer- 
sity Law School and graduated, after taking the 
law course, in 1896, with the degree of LL. B. 

Since then Major Curtin has been actively en- 
gaged in the practice of commercial law. He has 
taken an active interest in politics and lias served 
as secretary of the Republican Town Committee 
of Brookline. In the present year (1906) he was 
appointed to the military staff of Governor Curtis 
Guild, .Jr.. and at the town meeting in Brookline 
was chosen a member of the Board of Selectmen. 

In 1900 l.e married Miss Mabel W. Curtis, a 
niece of former Mayor Edwin U. Curtis of Boston, 
and granddaughter of Oliver Whyte who was 
for many year- a selectman of the town of Brook- 
line. They have one child. John Curtis Curtin. 
Major Curtin is a member of the University Club 
and the Boston Athletic Association. 



BROOKLINE, MA SS. 1 CH U SETTS 

Sherman Leland Whipple. 

Whipple, Sherman Leland, is the youngest 
sun of Doctor Solomon Mason Whipple and Hen- 
rietta Kimball Hersey, and was born in Xew 
London, New Hampshire, March t. 1862. He is 
descended in the tenth generation from Matthew 
Whipple, who migrated from England with his 
brother John and settled in Ipswich Hamlet (now 
Hamilton), Massachusetts, in 1634. John Whip- 
ple's great-great-grandson, General William 
Whipple, of Portsmouth, N. II. , was a signer of 
the Declaration of Independence and a Genera] in 
the Continental Army, second Xew Hampshire 
brigade, Moses Whipple, great-great-grand-father 

nt Sherman, was a Captain of a militia c pany 

which he enrolled in the Town of Croydon. X.H., 
and which was in service at the battle of Ben- 
nington. Was one of Croydon's earliest settlers. 

Doctor Whipple, father of the subjecl of this 
-ketch, was born in Croydon. October, 1820, and 
graduated from Norwich University and from the 
Dartmouth Medical School. He practised as a 
physician in Xew- London, X. II.. until his death, 
June 12, 1884. He was a frequent contributor to 
medical literature and a president of the Xew 
Hampshire State Medical Society. His wife, 
Henrietta Kimball Hersey, was the daughter of 
Amos Kimball Hersey. She was bom in < Ictober, 
1830, and is still living. 

Sherman L. Whipple prepared for college at 
Colby Academy, Xew- London, graduating in 
1877. He graduated from Vale University A. B., 
18S1, and from Vale University Law School LL. 
]'>.. ISS4. He taught for a season in the Boys' 
High School of Reading, Pa., and al Colby Acad- 
emy. He was admitted to the bar of Connecticut 
m June, 1884, of New Hampshire. August, 1884, 
and of Massachusetts, June, ISS5. Since that 
dale he has practised his profession in the City of 
Boston, residing in Brookline, since L8S9. He is 
a member of the University, Country, Algonquin 
Vale of New York, \ ale of Boston, and Twentieth 

Century Club-, of the Xew England Historic 

( ienealogical Society and the Bostonian Society. 
December '27. 1893. he was married to Louise 
( lough, of Manchester, X. 11. Since 1S97 he has 
resided with his family on Warren St reel . Brook- 
line. Mr. and Mrs. Whipple have three children. 
Dorothy, bom July 27. 1894, Katharyn Carleton, 
born November 30, IS95 and Sherman Leland, Jr., 
bom February 21, L898. 

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Brandon Hall. 

lixclusiveness is the distinctive feature of Bran- 
don Hall, Brookline, established in I'.mii under 
the able management of Mr. Charles K. I'henix. 

The considerate care with which a guest is 
greeted, the order and seclusion found in each 
suite, the rich, subdued and tasteful furnishings, 
the excellence of the cuisine, and the solicitous [it- 



reached in the art of anticipating every wish. 
Located in the centre of Boston's most fashiona- 
ble suburb, and with every means of transit with- 
in easy reach, it is the acme of the mosl practical, 
artistic and beautifully furnished hotel of its 
kind, and the hotel in its entirety is permeated 
with an atmosphere pleasing in every particular. 
The countn round aboul is healthful ami enjoya- 
ble, and fnii n i lie Ik it el radiate the famous \la-sa- 




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tention shown by the attendants speak for the 
able management i >i t lie hotel. 

The hotel is equipped with a very artistic ball 
room and is frequent ly used by fashionable classes. 
It is specially equipped to serve ladies' luncheons, 
private dinners and suppers. 

Patrons and visitors at this house cannol fail ti> 
appreciate the fact that a new standard has been 



chusetts State Roads leading to all chief points of 
interesl aboul Boston. The hotel offers a semi- 
country life for the summer, and is a plea-ant al- 
ternative tn seashore residence, yet almost within 
the shadow of the city. There are comparatively 
few people who realize the fad t hat Brookline pos- 
sesses in Brandon Hall, the most modern, unique 
and comfortable hostelry in America. 



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Marquis Fayette Dickinson. 

Dickinson, Marquis Fayette, eldest son of 
Marquis F., and Hannah (Williams) Dickinson, 
was born in Amherst, Mass.. January 16, 1840. 

He received his early education in the common 
schools of his native town, at Amherst and Monson 
Academies, and Williston Seminary, Easthamp- 
ton, from which he graduated in the class of 1N.5K. 

He entered Amherst College in the same year, 
graduating therefrom in 1S62, having one of the 
three highest of the commencement appoint- 
ments. After teaching classics in Williston Semi- 
nary for three years, IS62-5, he studied law with 
Wells & Smile, Springfield, at the Harvard Law 
School, 1S66-7, and with linn. George S. Hillard, 
nf Boston. He was Assistant United States At- 
torney from lsti'.t tn 1871. He then became a 
member nf the law firm nf Hillard, I tyde & I >ick- 
insiin, the style subsequently changing tn the 
well-known firm nf Hyde. Dickinson & Howe, 
later Dickinson; Farr .V Dickinson, at the present 
time the firm name is M. F., & Charles Dickinson. 
Mr. Dickinson was a member nf the Boston Com- 
mon Council in 1 S7 1 and Is7'_\ holding the office 
of president nf that body during the latter year. 
He was a trustee of the Boston Public Library in 
1S71 , has been a trustee nf (he Williston Seminary 
since 1872, trustee nf the Mass. Homoeopathic 



Hospital, and nne nf the overseers nf the charity 
fund nf Amherst College since 1S77. He was a 
lecturer nn law as applied tn rural affairs in the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, IS7I-7; au- 
thor nf "Legislation mi the Hours nf Labor," 
Is71 ; and nf the "Amherst Centennial Address," 
1 sTti. Mr. Dickinson is one of the counsel fur the 
I'm.- inn Elevated Hallway Company, his especial 
work being the defence of their accidenl cases in 
court. Mr. Dickinson was married at Easthamp- 
ton, Nov. 23, L864, to Cecilia R., adopted daugh- 
ter of Samuel and Emily (Graves) Williston. Of 
his three children only one is living, Charles. 
Williston and Florence having deceased. He has 
an adopted daughter, Jennie Couden Dickinson, 
daughter of his deceased sister. 




George Sumner Mann. 
Mann, George Si mm u. a resident of Boston 
and Brookline since 1S58. Was born in New 
Salem, Mass., November 25, 1834. His father. 
William Mann, and grandfather, Ensign Mann, 
Jr., were natives of Petersham, Mass. His ureal 
grandfather, Ensign Mann. Sr., was born on 
"Mann Hill," in Scituate, Mass., in 17 Hi : gradua 
ted from Harvard University, 1764; taught in 



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Lancaster three years. Settled in Petersham in 
1768, and married Alice, the eldest daughter of 
Rev. Aaron Whitney (Harvard, 1737), the first 
and long-time minister oi said town. Ensign 
Maim, Sr., was a school teacher and private tutor 
in Petersham for a long period. From 1708 to his 
marriage in 177:!, he was the leader of the "Sons of 
Liberty" in the town; and figured in a law suit 
wiih the patriol Josiah Quincy, Jr., againsl one 
Beaman, a noted lory. The mother of the sub- 
ject of this sketch was Abigail Cook, a dired 
descendant oi Henry Cook ol Salem, maternal 
grandmother was Lydia Fillmore, whose father 
was a soldier in the Revolution. George Sumner 
Mann was educated ai "-Bennett Hill" school, in 
Petersham, and Goodale Academy at Bernardston. 
In 1S53 was clerk in the old Theodore Jones store 
in A i IkiI. 1 So !-•"), clerk and part nership with Ah in 
Houghton in the same town. After a brief period 
in the post office in Erving, came to Boston in 
the employ of Farley, Bliss & Amsden on Bowdoin 
Square, from 1859 to 1877, Mr. Mann was in the 
retail drygoods business; having three stores on 
Treinont Row, 'Fremont and Hanover Street-, un- 
der Ihe firm names of Mann iV Co., Barker, Mann 
Co. and Geo. S. Mann .V Co. Retired in 1877. 
Since then he has passed the time in rare oi 
trusts, travel and study, lie has compiled notes 
on Petersham, and is the Author of the "Mann 
Memorial", published in 1884. He is president of 
" I '.ei i ne it Hill Association ;" a member of the New 
England Historic Genealogical Society, Essex In- 
stitute of Salem, the Bostonian Society. Brook- 
line Thursday Club, Brookline Historical Society, 
etc., etc. He married in 1865, Susan Alzea, 
born in Topslield. Mass., daughter of Dr. 
Jeremiah and Esther (Wildes) Stone, and they 
have two daughters ( I ), ( 'a me Wildes, born 1 SOS, 
married William A. Spalding of Chestnut 1 1 ill, and 
they have two sons; Richard Mann, born 1003, 
and Philip Wildes, born 1905; (2), Gertrude Whit- 
ney Mann, born 1 N71 . 

Charles H. Steams. 

Sti \k\s. Charles II .. Chairman of the Board 
of Assessors of Brookline. was educated in the 

public scl Is of the town and the Chauncy Hall 

School, Boston; and after completing his course 
of study, assisted in the labors of the home farm. 

( 111 1 he death of hi.- fat her he a --ill lied the entire 

management of the property, and for some years 



engaged in the nursery business. He subsequent- 
ly divided the farm into building lots, which met 
with a ready sale, each lot being a desirable loca- 
tion for building purposes; retaining for his own 
use the house in which lie was burn, lie has 
made many changes and improvements, rendering 
n one ol the most attractive and conveniently ar- 
ranged Colonial residences iii this vicinity. 

In 1892 he was elected Assessor, and to this im- 
portant office he has since been re-elected each 

succeeding year. 

lie is a trustee oi the Brookline Cemeterv, and 
one of the vice-presidents of the Brookline Savings 
Bank, with which he has been officially connected 
for many years. 

I in ( Ictober 23, 18(52, Mr. Stearns married \nna 
M. Melleii. a daughter of the late Michael and Sa- 
rah Mellell, of this town. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stearns have two children. Anna 
and Marion, 




William F. Fitzgerald. 

tiizoi i: \ i,i>. William F., born in Boston. 
Mass., September 1. 1867. Educated in Boston, 
after which he entered I lie banking business and 
is now a member of the firm Towle A Fitzgerald, 
Bankers A: Brokers. 



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w::- a contributor to the tree Trade Advocate of 
Philadelphia, and an associate of Alberl < lallatin, 
in preparing statistical papers on the effects oi the 
tariff at the free trade convention al Philadelphia 
in September, is.'ll. 

He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan and 
Hannah (Tracy) Jackson, granddaughter of Ed- 
ward and |)orothy (Quincy) Jackson and of Cap- 
tain Patrick Tracy, and their youngest son. I ran- 
cis I.. Lee, IS2H-1SSG. Harvard A. B., IS43. A. M.. 
IMC; was Colonel of the I Mi Massachusetts 
Volunteers in the Civil War. The Lees of Massa- 
chusetts descended from John and Marv illun- 



with his father who was a merchant in Boston, 
conducting a large foreign and domestic trade. 

In IS40, he became the junior partner in the 
firm of Bullard >V Lee. Hast India merchants, 
with commission houses in Boston and Calcutta. 

This l in 1 1 was dissolved in 1853. and Henry Lee, 
with George Higginson and John Clarke Lee. es- 
tablished the banking house of Lee. Higginson \ 
Co., and he continued the senior partner in that 
meal banking establishment up to 1897, in De- 
cember of which year he withdrew, having passed 
his eightieth birthday. He was the pioneer 
banker in Boston to establish safe deposits for 




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valuables heretofore kept in private houses, and 
in IStiS projected and carried out the establish- 
ment "I the lnion Safe Deposit Vaults, and he 

"Teat, great, ureal, grandparents of Henry Lee, was manager of the enterprise up to the time <>t 

the banker. His great, grandparents, Thomas 



ni-rford) Leigh, who sett leil in Ipswich, Massachu- 
setts Bay Colony about 11)154. Thomas and De- 
borah ( Flint ) Leigh or Lee. of Ipswich were tin 



(Harvard. IT'-'-', and Louis (Orne) Lee, and his 
grand parents were Joseph (Harvard. 17(55). and 
Elizabeth (Cabot) Lee, and he was thus closely 
allied to the Massachusetts families of Winthrop, 
Saltonstall. Pickering. Cabot. Higginson, Endi- 
eott and others equally prominent. On leaving 
Harvard I niversit} . where he was graduated A. 
I'... 18:5(5, A. M., Is: 1 )'.', lie engaged iii business 



his death. Dining the Civil War he was active in 
advancing the cause of the lnion, by personal 
service, and by large contributions of money, and 
he served on the staff of Governor Andrew as 
Ude-De-Camp, with the rank of Colonel! 1861-05), 
at a nine when the duties of an officer on the staff 
df the Governor of Massachusetts, meant hard 
and constant service, lie also served the com- 
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Courl (1876-77), and lie was an overseer of liar- In the summer of 1S47, after spending a few 
vard University (1867-79). and again (1880-98). months in the office of Samuel M. Felt on, he bo- 
He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical yn field work on the Km land ,V Burlington Rail- 
Society : a founder, and for several years presidenl road, in Vermont, holding the position ol as- 
of the Union Club of Boston; a stockholder in the sistant engineer on location and construction. 
Boston Athenaeum; a trustee of the Museum of Upon this work he was engaged some three years. 
Fine Arts, and a member of the New England His- Then going to Canandaigua, X. Y.. be was em- 
toric Genealogical Society. Identified a- ho was ployed in the construction of some branches oi 
with the highesl intellectual and artistic life of the Erie Railway. Ho held here the position oi 
Boston, ho was a generous and influential patron resident engineer of location and construction, 
of the opera and drama, and of all enterprises of a and this work occupied another throe years till 
benevolent and educational nature. He was near tin- end oi 1853. 

married. October 20. 1845. to Elizabeth, daughter A few months after he had finished work in 
of Colonel Samuel and Elizabeth (Cabot) Perkins. western New York he sailed for Europe, and re- 
am! they established their home in Brookline on mained abroad a year and a halt. Several 
a large and beautiful estate, a section of the old months were spent al Paris in professional studios, 
town noted for the beauty of its scenery and the In the summer of 1855 he returned home and soon 
command il has of extensive views. afterwards entered the employ of the Boston 
Two sons survive him : George and Eliot ('.. it Worcester Railroad as Assistant Su]>erinten- 
l.nih resident? of Brookline. dent and Engineer. For five or six years ho was 
Colonel Fee is the author of "The Militia of the engaged in improving the location of the road and 
United States; What it Has Been, and What it rebuilding some of its structures. 
Should lie." lie died at lii- homo in Brookline, After the war closed Mr. Philbrick was em- 
Mass., November 21. 1S9S. ployed upon some town improvements in Brook- 
line and connected with some manufacturing en- 
terprises. In 1869 he was appointed by the 
Governor of Massachusetts Inspecting Engineer 



Edward Southwick Philbrick. 



Philbrick, Edward Sovthwick, son of Sam- of the Boston. Hartford .V Erie Railroad, to 

ttel and Eliza (Southwick), was born Nov. 20, which the State had made a loan of 83,000,1 

1827, and died Feb. 13, 1889. He was descended About this time the Boston >V Albany Railroad 
from Quaker ancestry that had been native to the was formed by the consolidation oi the Boston .V 
shores of Massachusetts Bay from near the date of Worcester and the Western railroad.-. The 
the settlement of Boston. He was born in Bos- traffic of the road increased to such an extent thai 
ton. but excepl during early infancy hi- home was the work of rebuilding it.- bridges in iron was do- 
always in the adjacent town of Brookline. His cided upon and Mr. Philbrick was appointed Con- 
father was :l merchant in Boston, a director in suiting Engineer and had charge of it. A largo 
several corporations, and for thirty years treas- number of bridges were built, mostly between 
urer of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Worcester and Albany. The type he adopted 

In 1843. after fitting for college at the Brookline was the riveted lattice, or for small -pan- the plate 
High School, he entered the sophomore class at girder. The most notable among these bridges 
Harvard College. Paternal consent to this step, was that over the Connecticut at Springfield, and 
however, was conditional upon hi- living at home, it occasioned a good deal of controversy a- to the 
walking the three mil,- each way to and from comparative merits of riveted and pin-connected 
college daily, and spending no time on the study trusses. Without entering into the details of 
of Greek. These requirements were strictly c - the question, it seems proper to say that Mr Phil- 
plied with, but the restriction as to Greek pre- brick's judgmenl i- supported by the practice ol 
vented hi- receiving the customary degree on the some of the largesl and besl managed road? and 
completion of his course; at a later date, however, that even pin-connected bridge? in recenl year? 
in recognition of hi- merits in other directions. have been made to conform in some features to 
the degree was conferred as of the class of 1846. to the riveted typo. Mr. Philbrick'- preference for 

riveted connections did not extend to very largo 



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spans. Other works on the Boston iV Albany 
Railroad constructed under his charge were the 
large Union Station al Worcester, and the grain 
elevators in Boston, that al Eas1 Boston being 
notable on aceounl of the difficulties encountered 
in securing good fi mill la tions. 

Near the close of ISfiS the State of Massachu- 
setts contracted for the completion of Hoosac 
Tunnel. The Trcn and (ireenfield Railroad Com- 
pany had previously received State aid to the 
amount of several million dollars to build the 
tunnel and connecting railroad. l>ui after twenty 



tion of the works was intrusted to Mr. Philbrick. 
The supply i- taken from a filtering gallery near 
Charles River at a point a few miles from the 
town. These works were constructed during 
1ST 1-5 al a cost of a half million of dollars. 

The improvement of the flats at South Boston 
was also carried ou1 under Mr. I'hilbrick's charge, 
and is a work of considerable local importance. 
The State contracted for building the sea walls 
and filling a portion of the Hats in the lat ter pari of 
ls7o. A large area adjacent was owned by the 
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years' effort much the larger pari of the tunnel made for filling this at t lie same time. Mr. I'hil- 



remaincd unfinished and the Slate had come into 
possession. A \ ear or two after the contracl was 
made Mr. Philbrick was consulted upon some 
questions thai arose as to alignment and quanti- 
ties, and was soon afterwards appointed Consult- 



brich had charge of i his alsi >. 

Included in his professional practice were con- 
sultations as to i he foundations of Trinity Church 
and the new public library building in Boston; 
service on commissions to award damages for 



ing Engineer to the Coventor and Council for diversion of water by the city of Worcester from 



this work, and held thai position till the tunnel 
was opened. The amount of this contracl was 
$4,500,000. 

\\ hen the growth of the town of Brookline 
nece naied a public water supply, the construc- 



Blaekstone Valley, and by the city of Cambridge 
from Stony Brook, and to investigate the causes 
and management of the Greal Fire in Boston. 
A- a citizen he was public-spirited, indepen- 
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tends to promote good and honest government, 
often devoting time and money to this end, though 
seeking for himself no conspicuous part. 

In religious belief lie was a Unitarian, and served 
as treasurer of the First Unitarian Church in 
Brookline fi t many years. 

("in the 16th lit' September, 1S57, he married 
Miss Helen M., daughter of the late Alfred Winsor, 
of Brookline. 

John Wilson Candler. 

Candler, John Wilson, son of Captain John 
and Susan (Wheelwright) Candler, was born in 
Boston, Fell. 10, 1S2S, and died al his home in 
Brookline. 

lb- was educated in the Marblehead Academy, 
in tin 1 Dummer Academy, Byfield, and finished 
his scholastic course in Schoharie Academy, V Y. 

On leaving school he accepted a clerkship in 
Boston. Soon after tin- death of his father in 
1S49. thr family removed in Brookline, where Mr. 
Candler had to the time of his death resided. 
For thirty-1 wo years Mr. Candler had been a mem- 
ber i>f differenl firms of shipowners engaged in 
foreign trade. 

In 1S66, Mr, Candler was a member of the 
legislal ure. From 1869 to 1 S73, he was an earnesl 
advocate of a board of prison commissioners: 
he served for several years as its chairman. For 
four years he devoted much of the time to the 
prosecution of the work of building the separate 
prison fur women, lie was a prominenl member 
ill" the National Board of 'Trade. 

lie was president of the Boston Board of Trade, 
1 s77 and 7*: president of the Commercial club 
three terms. He was a republican in politics. 
In 1S76 and 7s, he was candidate fur Congress. 

In 1S80 he was elected a member of the 47th 
( !ongress of the 8th Congressional District, and in 
Isss he was eleeted tn the 51st. Congress in the 
9th districl by a large majority. 

Mr. Candler was married in 1851, to Lucy A., 
daughter of Henry Cobb, of Boston. She died in 
October, 1855. His second marriage occurred in 
November, 1867, with Ida M.. daughter of John 
and Amelia Garrison, of New York. T T i — family 
consists of three daughters: Cora, who married 
('has, T. Bush of Weston, and who resides in Wes1 
New Brighton, Staten Island, X. Y. : Anita, who 
married Hon. David S. Baker, Jr.. of North King- 
ston, 1!. I.: and Amelia Candler. 




John Henry Allen. 

Ai.i.i \. John IIi.nkv. assistant chief of the 
Brookline hire Department since 1903, was born 
ii Machiasport, Maine, August 27, 1848. 

He is a direct descendant of Col. John Allen of 
Revolutionary' lame. Chief Allen is the sun of 
Abijah 0. Allen, who enlisted in 1861 and died a 
year later in New ( h'leans. Young Allen who in- 
herited the pluck nf his father, enlisted in the 
Civil War in 1865. with the loth Mate of Maine 
Regiment, and was discharged as Corporal at the 
expiration of his service. He came to Brookline 
in 1S69, and entered the tire department soon 
after. He served the town faithfully as call engi- 
neer for nine consecutive years, i he last two years 
as Chief. He was placed mi t he permanent list in 
1891, and was promoted tn the position nf Assis- 
tant Chief nf the I tepartmenl in 1903. 

Chief Allen was married in 1S74, t<> Marietta 
Willi- Palmer, daughter nf the late Charles Lewis 
Palmer; they have two children, Sadie Allen 
Mitchell, who is on the staff nf the Brookline 
Press, and Harry Berton Allen who is connected 
with the firm nf John F. Fleming A Co., of Brook- 
line, Mass. 



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Amos Adams Lawrence. 

Lawri si i . Amos Adams. u;i- born in Boston. 
Mass.. Juh 31. 1814. second son of \inos and 
Sarah (Richards) Lawrence: grandson of Major 
Samuel and Susanna (Parker) Lawrence, and of 
Ciles and Sarah (Adams) Richards; greatgrand- 
son of Amos and Abigail (Abbott) Lawrence; 
great, great grandson of John and Hannah (Tar- 
bell) Lawrence; great, great, greal grandson of 
Nathaniel and ' Sarah (Morse) Lawrence; and 
great, great, great, great grandson of John, (sun 
of Heurv and Marv Lawrence) and his wife 



second daughter of the Hon. William and Mary 
Anne (Cutler) Appleton; and their children were 
Marianne Appleton, Lorn Max 12, lsld. who mar- 
ried Dr. Ruber! \morv: Sarah, born in Brookline, 
July 5. 1845, who married I'eter Chardon Brooks; 
Amory Appleton. merchant, Lorn April 22. 1848, 
who married first. Emily Fairfax Silsbee, and 
second, Gertrude M. Rice : William. Lorn Max 30, 
1 s.'iO. Bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts, 
married Julia Cunningham; Susan Mason. Lorn 
February 1. 1852, married a! Longwood, Septem- 
ber '_'.">. iss:;. i.i .Indue William Caleb Luring, of 
the Supreme Judicial Courl of Massachusetts. 




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Elizabeth John Lawrence was the emigrant 
ancestor and came from \\ isset. Suffolk . England, 



Hett\ Sullivan. Lorn Now 21, 1855; married 
I "red eric Cunningham, and Harriett Dexter. Lorn 



io Watertown. Massachusetts I '.a \ Colour, about June 8, 1858, married Augustus Hemenway 



the vear 1035 Aim"- Adams Lawrence, with his 
brother William Richard Lawrence, on the death 



Amos Adams Lawrence resumed the commis- 
sion drvg Is business in Boston in 1st:!, with 



of their mother in 1S19. were senl to Groton. and Mr. Roberl M. Mason mule]- the firm name of 

their school training was received in Boston and Mason .V Lawrence, and in IS46 the celebrated 

ai Franklin Acadenn . Andover. Mass., where he firm of Lawrence .V Co. came into existence, and 



epared fur college. He was graduated at he was I he head of the house up 1" the lime of his 

death He was president of the Cocheco Manu- 
facturing Company, treasurer of the Salmon Falls 
Manufacturing Company, director of the Suffolk 
Bank, of the Massachusetts General Eospital. of 



was [ire] 

Harvard, \ B 1835 He engaged in the dry 

i> 1- commission business in Boston as clerk and 

proprietor. LS35-30; visited Europe in 1S39-42. 

and on March 31. 1842. married Sarah I li abeth. 



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the American Insurance Office, nf the Boston 
Water Bower Corporation, of the Amesbury Com- 
pany. of the Middlesex Canal, of the Massachusetts 
Bible Society, of the Massachusetts Board of 
Domestic Missions and of Grot on Academy. He 
founded the town of Applet on on a large trad of 
land which he owned on the Fox River in eastern 

Wisconsin, about 1846. and he gave $20. to es 

tablish the Lawrence Institute of Wisconsin. 
'•', in 1849 was rechartered. Lawrence I niver- 
sity. It was situated in the town of Appleton 
and named fni- Mr. Lawrence, its founder and prin- 
cipal benefactor. lb' secured for it the Appleton 



church was finished by their children as a me- 
morial to their mother. Mr. Lawrence was the 
tirsl i reasurer of the Episcopal Theoli igical School 
at Cambridge, and he held the position for fifteen 
years, lie began the building of Lawrence Hall, 
a stone dormitory for the Theological School in 
1873, and completed the edifice in 1S80, at a cost 
of s7.",. nun. lie was treasurer of the corporation 
of Harvard Cniversity 1 ^-.~>7-< >'_' . and overseer of 
the college 1879-85. He was one of the one hun- 
dred members of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society. His interest in the Free-Soil political 
party in 1854. led to his aiding in the formation of 




Y1KW Hi BOYLSTO.N STREET, BKOOKLIXE. 



Library fund, and gave over 830.000 for its sup- 
port. He became a resident of Longwood. I Srook- 
line. in 1851. when with his brother he had pur- 
chased many acre- of land, and in 1867, they 
erected the Church of Our Savior in memory of 
their father. This handsome edifice is built of 
Roxbun stone with granite trimmings, and the 
church was consecrated by Bishop East burn. 
September 29. 18R8. In 1885. Mrs. Amos A. 
Lawrence caused a stone rectory to be erected in 
connection with the church, and presented to the 
parish, and in 1803, the beautiful transepl of the 



the New- England Emigrant Aid Company, to pre- 
vent the establishment of slavery in Xebr; 
and Kansas, and he was one of the three orij 
trustees and treasurer of the company. Much of 
his time and thought, and considerable of his 
mean- were devoted to this cause, and ehierh 
through his efforts, seconded by the earnesl co- 
i iperal ion of Eli Thayer of Worcester, Kansas be- 
came a free state, and one of it- principal cities 
bears his name 

In 18(50 he was made the candidate of the L'nion 
part v for < !o\ ern< ir i if Massachusel I s. 



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()n hearing the murniurings that preceded the 
civil strife, he helped to arouse the martial spirit 
of the state, and in spite of his official and business 
cares he instructed his fellow townsmen of Brook - 
line, and the students of Harvard in the manual of 
arms. In 1S62, he largely recruited the 2nd 
regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, 
Col. Charles 1!. Lowell, and in 1S63, served on the 
committee appointed by Governor Andrew to or- 
ganize and recruit the 54th Massachusetts Regi- 
ment (Colored), of which Robert G. Shaw was 
the Colonel. At the close of the war he was 
chairman of the Finance Committee that had 
in hand providing funds for the building of Me- 
morial Hall at Harvard, in honor of her sons who 
gave their lives for the preservation of the Union. 
Mr. Lawrence was the first president of the New 
England Tru-t Company. He also served as a 
director of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insur- 
ance Company, as president of the National Asso- 
ciation of Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, 
and also of the Association of Knit-Goods Manu- 
facturers. Amos Adams Lawrence died at Na- 
haiiT. Mass., August 22, 1SS6. 

Reuben S. Swan. 

Swan, Reuben S., vice-president of the Brook- 
line National Bank, was born in Dorchester, Mass., 
January 7, 1S50. He is the son of William Henry 
and Mary Elizabeth (Bronsdon) Swan, and a de- 
scendant in the seventh generation of John Swan 
of< 'ambridge (Arlington) Mass., an early settler of 
that town. On his maternal side he is descended 
from many of the original settleers of Dorchester 
and vicinity, including Henry Withington, Rich- 
ard Baker. Ezra Clapp, Edward Vose, Daniel 
Preston, Philip Eliot and Matthias Puffer. 

Hi- education was obtained in the public schools 
of Dorchester, and he was graduated fromthe I >or- 
chester lli^h School in 1S67. His firsl employ- 
ment after leaving school was with a woolen firm 
in Boston. When t he town of Dorchester was an- 
nexed ti> Boston he was employed by the city of 
I '"'-I,, ii witli ;i part j' of sun eyors in making a plan 
of the streets of Dorchester, much of the mathe- 
matical part (if the earlier work being done by 
him. 

In 1870 he entered the First National Bank of 
Boston as messenger. His connection with that 
institution continued for sixteen years, during 



which time by reason of promotions he served in 
most of the subordinate positions of the bank, and 
obtained a thorough training in the business. 
Upon the establishment of t he Brookline National 
Bank in 1886, Mr. Swan was offered the position 
of cashier, which he accepted, and removed from 
Dorchester to Brookline. In IS9S he was elected 
as vice-president of the hank which position he 
now holds. 

While living in I >orchester he served as a mem- 
ber of the Boston Common Council in 1881, from 
Ward 24. He is a Past Master of Beth Horon 
Lodge, A. F. iV A. M., of Brookline, and is a mem- 
ber of St. Paul R. A. Chapter of Boston, Roxbury 
Council of Select Masters, and De Molay Com 
mandery, K. T. of Huston. 

Mr. Swan was married on October S, 1873, to 
Miss Emma A. Melville, daughter of William and 
Man- Jane (Wight) Melville of Dorchester. The; 
have one son, Clifford Melville Swan, who is an 
instructor in the Massachusett - Institute of Tech- 
iM floso . 




Charles French Read. 
Pi vd, Charles Fri sen, clerk and t reasurerof the 
Bostonian Society, was born in Boston, Septem- 
ber 17. 1853, son of William and Sarah Fuller 
(McLellan) Read. He is a descendant in the 



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ninth generation from Esdras Read, the lineage 
being: Ksdras, Obadiah, Thomas, William, 
Ruben . \\ 1 1 1 i .- 1 1 1 1 . 1 oil '» • 1 1 . \\ il Ham, Charles French. 

lie was educated in the public schools and the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Host on, 
Mass., .■on I served as secretary and treasurer of the 
Mi ■ husetts Institute of Technology class asso- 
ciation, for twenty years from IS74. He had 
been in business many years when he was first 
rice ted clerk and treasurer of the Bostonian Socie- 
ty with which he has I urn since identified. 

The Bnstonian Society was organized in pro- 
mote i he -I ud\ of 1 In' histon of Boston and to 
preserve n - antiquities: the soi h-i \ lias one thou- 



Edward Atkinson. 

Atkinson, Edward, son of Amos and Anna 
Oreenlief (Sawyer) Atkinson, was born in Brook- 
line, Feb. 10, I s_'7 : died December 1 1 . 1905. He 
married. Oct. I, lSoo. Mary C. Heath, daughter of 
Charles and ( 'aniline i ' lVmiiinan ) I leal h ol I '.rook - 
line. Mr. Atkinson leaves a widow, also Mrs. 
Ernest Winsor. the oldest daughter; Miss ('. I' 
Atkinson, Mrs. (i. R. Wadsworth. Edward W. At- 
kinson, Charles II Atkinson, William Atkinson 
and Robert \V. Atkinson. 

lie w:is I •"> years old when he In-i entereil a 
commission house, and in -i \ vears was made coir 




KMKUSi iN llol'SE, M \\ I- \\ KM E 



-and members. Mr. Head was married October fidential clerk, and a lew years later treasure] 1 "l 

24, 1SS7, to Marv Bickerstaff Coiner, daughter of various manufacturing companies, in which he 



Joseph and Elizabeth (Bickerstaff) Comer of Bos- 
ton: the children of this union were: Harold 



continued until 1 SI , . Later he was made presi- 
dent of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual lire 



Comer, burn in Boston, December '_'. Inns, and Insurance Company, a post he held for nearly 

Edith Bickerstaff, burn in Brookline, \pril '_'■!. fort) years, fur forty years Mr. Atkinson had 

Ix'in ||e ha- been a resident hI Brookline for been a prolilic writer of papers and pamphlets on 

banking, competition, railroading, cotton manu- 
factures, lire prevention, the tariff, the money 



■several years He is a member of the New Eng- 

land Historical (Jenealogical Society: Massachu- 
ei i- Society Son- of the American Revolution: 
the Bostonia Society; the Society of Colonial 
Wars in Massachusetts, and the Bunker Hill 
Monument Assoeial ion. 



question, imperialism, etc. On these topics he 

was one of l he best kiinwii eoiil I'm er-ia li-t s iii the 
country. He «a- a vigorous opponent of the 
colonial policy adopted by the United Suites as a 



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consequence of the war w 1 1 1 1 Spam, a ml some of his 
must vigorous pamphleteering was done in ex- 
pounding his views on imperialism. Perhaps his 
mosl valuable contribution to his times was the 
results of his study of mill-construction and other 
building, with a view to make them slow-burning. 
His advocacy of sprinkler installation has been 
widely followed. As a statistician he was inde- 
fatigable, and the very volume of proofs which he 
often produced to clinch a moot point had main 
times the effect of discouraging careful examina- 
tion. As a controversialist he was confident, im- 
petuous and never counted the cost. Mr. Atkin- 
son was proininenl in nearly every movemenl 
which "offered an opportunity," as he expressed 
it , "to champion the besl interests of the people.' 
In 1SS7 Mr. Atkinson was appointed by I'resi- 
dent Cleveland a special Commissioner to report 
upon the status of bimetallism in Europe, lb' 
helped to found the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology and was a director of thai institution 
for a considerable period, lie was one of the 
founders of the New England Emigrant Aid So- 
ciety. He was an honorary member of the Har- 
vard Chapter of I 'hi Beta [vappa, a member of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow 
of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, member and corresponding secre- 
tary of the American Statistical Association, 
member ofthe International Statistical Institute, 
member of the Cobden Club of i Ireal Britain, the 
Unitarian Club of Boston, and many other similar 
organizations. Mr. Atkinson had been honored 
with the degree of LL. 1>. by the University of 
Smith Carolina, and a Ph. I>. by Dartmouth 
College. 



Stephen Dexter Bennett. 

Bennett, Stephen Dexter, for many year- a 
resident of Brookline, was bom in Brighton, Mass.. 
July 15, 183S. When cptite young he went to 
Cambridge, where he resided for many years. In 
1S69, he removed to Brookline, taking up his resi- 
lience mi Walnul Street. He retired from active 
business in 18S6. He was prontinenl and popular 
among the townspeople, and, although he never 
held public office, he was always interested in 
affairs pertaining to the welfare of the people of 
the town. He was a member of the Union Club, 
Coventry Club and Eastern Yacht Club. lie 



died iii Brookline, March !), 1 !)<)(>, leaving a widow 
and four children. Henry Dexter Bennett, 
Stephen Howe Bennett; Miss Elizabeth Bennett 
and Mrs. Charles Richardson of Weston, Mass. 




Fred Homer Williams. 

Willi ims, Fred Humer, one of Boston's lead- 
ing lawyer- and a well-known resident of Brook- 
line, was born in f'oxboro, Norfolk County, 
January 7, LS57, son of Virgil Homer and Nancy 
I! (Briggs) William-, and a descendant of Rich- 
ard Williams, who came from England m lli.'ili. 
and settled in Taunton in 1 1 *. : 1 7 . 

hewn Williams, father of Virgil II.. was burn 
in Easton, Mass., and -pent his life as a farmer in 
thai town, a proininenl and highlv respected citi- 
zen. In the (ieneral Courl of 1N43 he was one of 
four Abolitionists, and was their candidate for 
Speaker. ATier several day-' fruitless voting, 
when the Whig and Democratic candidates were 
tied, the Democrats gave him their votes, but the 

Whig candidate W a- elect eel by one Vote. lie met 

his death by accident, in the seventy-sixth year 
of Ins age. 



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Virgil Homer Williams, was broughl up on 
his father's farm, attended the Normal School 
at Bridgewater, and settled in Foxboro when 
a young man. lie was a painter by trade, and 
was al>o employed in the manufacture of straw 

g Is. from 1890 he resided with his sun in 

Brookline, and died June 27, 1900, at the age of 
eighty-four years. 

Hi' married a daughter of Wheat on Briggs, a 
wheelwright of Attleboro. Mrs. Williams died 
in 1SS0, ai the age of sixty-four years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Williams were members of the I 'ongrega- 
tional Church in 1 oxboro. 



was admitted to tin- Bar m 1SS2. After practic- 
ing law two years in Foxboro, he opened an 
office in Boston, and has long been associated 
with Frank M. Copeland, Esq., under the firm 
name of \\ illiams A: ( 'opeland. 

.Inly 19, 1881, he married Julia Annette Blake, 
who was born m Whitman, then called South 
Abington, the daughter of Samuel and Julia A. 
Blake. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one child. 
Harold Putnam, an attorney-at-law, born Octo- 
ber 'J. 1882, a graduate of the Brookline High 
School 1899, oi Harvard I'niversity 1903. and'of 
the Harvard I. aw School 1900. 




KKSIDEXt I. OF \ll;> Kl 1 I i:l !M,K AM' Ml?. \Y. M. SNOW GAHD.NE1! ROAD. 



Kred Homer William-, the only child of his 
parents, lived in Foxboro until sixteen years of 
age, w hen he entered Brown University, where he 
wa- graduated in the class of ls77. He was 
principal of the High School at East Med way. now 
Millis, Massachusetts, tor two years, and then be- 
gan the study of law with Hon. \\ . II. Fox of 
I aunti hi. Massachusel I s. 

Before lie completed his law studies hi- health 
failed, and he -pent a year in Minnesota. Re- 
covering, he resumed hi- studies with Judge Fox 
and at the Boston University Law School, and 



Mr. Williams has always resided in this county. 
having moved from Foxboro to Brookline in 
1890. He al-o ha- a large farm at Millis, where he 
spends t hi' summer months, lie i- a Republican, 
and served m the Massachusetts House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1883 and 1SS4, serving a- Chairman 
ol the Committee on Bills in Third Reading in 
lss:; and a- House Chairman of the Committee 
on Insurance in 1SS4. Ih- wa- a member of the 
Massachusetts Senate in 1898 and 1899, serving as 
Chairman of the Committee on Mercantile Affairs 
in 1898, and as Chairman of the Committee on 



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Rules and of the Committee on Hanks and Bank- 
ing. He was Secretary of the Norfolk Club from 
I ss I to L889. For several years he was Secretary 
(if the Association of t he Sun.- of Brown, composed 
of graduates of Brown University residing in Bos- 
ton and vicinity, and later served a- President. 
Mr. Williams has long been a member of the Cur- 
tis Club, composed of Boston lawyers. Socially 
he is connected with the University and Exchange 
Clubs in Boston, and of the Thursday Chili of 
Brookline. Mr. and .Mrs. Williams attend the 
Harvard Congregational Church. 




Frank A. Russell. 

Russell, Frank A., born in Boston, Mass., 
Nov. 6, 1867. His early life was spenl with his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel \Y. Russell, in 
Europe. Returning in 1880, he attended the 

Brookline High Sri I. graduating in 1886. He 

was in business in Denver, Col., 1S90 to L 892, and 
again returned to Brookline, in ls'.i:!. and has 
since been engaged in building up his extensive 
real estate business. 




John Munro Longyear. 

l.dNi.Yi.AK, John Muxro, sun of John Wesley 
and Harriet Munro Longyear, was born in Lans- 
ing, Mich., 1851. His lather. John Wesley Long- 
year, representative, was born in Shandaken, N. 
V. Oct, 22, IS20; son of Peter and Jerusha 
(Stevens) Longyear; grandsi m of John and Anna- 
tje (Whine) Longyear; and a descendant of 
Jacob and .Maria (Cox) Langjahr. He attended 
t he academy in Lima. N. V., taught school I'm' 
several years and settled in Mason, Ingham 
County, Mich, in 1844, where he taugh.1 school. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1S46; removed t<> 
Lansing in 1847, and engaged m the practice of 
law. In ls.V_'. he formed a partnership with his 
brother, Ephraim Longyear. He was married 
in 1849 to Harriet Munroe, "l' Eagle, Mich, lie 
was a republican representative in the 38th and 
39th congresses, 1S63-67. He was chairman of 

the commits ii expenditures mi the public 

buildings and a member of the committee on com- 
merce. He was a delegate t>> the Loyalisl con- 
vention in Philadelphia in 1S66. to the Michigan 
constitutional convention of 1867, and judge of 
the U. S. district cmiri for the eastern distrid of 



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Michigan. 1S70-75. He died in Detroit, Mich.. 
March I I. 1875. 
John Munro Longyear, the subject oi this 

sketch, passed his hoyli 1 days in Ins native 

stale. After leaving the preparatory schools lie 
entered Olivel College m Michigan and finished 
his education at Georgetown College, Washington, 
| ). C. As he preferred business Id that of law , he 
engaged in real estate and also in mines and tim- 
l,er. Owing to his extensive interests in Mar- 
quette. Mich., lie divides his time between that 
place and Brookline : in t he latter place he has 
ju-t erected a handsome residence on 1 isher Hill. 
Mr. Longyear served as mayor of Marquette, 
Mich., and is a member of the hoard of control 
for the College of Mine-, Houghton. Mich. lie 
was married January I. IS7D to Man Beccher oi 
Wisconsin; the\ have six children, all of whom 
were educated abroad. The family came to 
I Srookline from Pari- in I DO") 





Dana Estes. 

Estks. Dan a. of Boston, head < if the publishing 
house of Kstes ,V Lauriat, was horn in CJorham, 
Maine. March 4, 1' K) 

I lis first American ancestor on I he paternal side 
was Richard Estes, son of Robert Kstes, of Dover, 



England, who came to t his count ry in 16S4, land- 
ing at Boston on September 27, and arriving at 
Riscataqua aboul two weeks later, where he 
finally settled. The line of descent is through 
Benjamin (2), Henry (3), Samuel (4). Joseph 
(5), who commanded a company of infantry in the 
Aroostook war: he married Maria Edwards, and 
became the lather of the subject of this sketch. 
On the maternal side Mr. Estes is the fourth in 
descent from Hugh McLellan, of Gorham, who 

came, ill 1733, from Londonderry. Ireland, and 
was a descendant from Sir Hugh McLellan, of 
U'g\ le, Scot land. 

Dana Estes received his early education in the 
schools of Crorham, and commenced his business 
experience in IS.55, in Augusta. Maine, Ins lirst 
training being as clerk in a wholesale and retail 
general store. In 1S59 he came to Boston, en- 
gaged in the book business with Henry D. Degen 
<V Son. Two years later occurred the out break oi 
the Rebellion, and the VOUlip man enlisted iii the 

Eourt h Battalion Rifles, which was the nucleus of 
the Thirteenth Regiment. He was in active ser- 
vice until disabled by being three times wounded 
in the second bat tie of Bull Run, August 31, 1S62, 
in which engagement Ins only brother. Albeit S. 
Estes, was killed 

Alter recovery from his wounds he took a posi- 
tion temporarily with the bookselling house of 
William 11. Hill, Jr., where he remained until the 
re i urn from I he war of his former employer. Henry 
I ). Degen, with whom he formed a co-partnership 
under t he name of Degen, Estes & Company, and 
carried on a small publishing and bookselling busi- 
ness on Comhill. Mr. Estes sold out to his partner 
and took a position as salesman with bee & Shep- 
ard. remaining with them until he formed the 
partnership with Charles E. Lauriat. 

After the death of Samuel Walker, the veteran 
subscription book publisher, Estes <& Lauriat pur- 
chased the publishing plant connected with that 
I msiness 

in 1SD0, finding that their publishing business 
had outgrown t he offices on Washington Street in 

which it was i lucted, Mr. Estes erected two 

large buildings on Summer Street extension, ex- 
tending nearly through to < 'ongress Street. These 
buildings, known as Estes Press Buildings, and 
fitted with every modern improvement and con- 
venience for the purpose, accommodate some oi t he 
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in the country, and afford headquarters for the 
firm's own publishing, book manufacturing and 
subscription depart ments. 

Mr. Estes' experience in an important litigation 
suit brought him prominently forward in organiz- 
ing tin.' movement to give foreign authors their 
rights by an international copyright law, and he 
acted as chief organizer and secretary of the fnter- 
national Copyright Association, of which ['resi- 
lient Eliot of Harvard University, .lames Russell 
Lowell, Francis Parkman, Alexander 11. Rice and 
Gen. Francis A. Walker were also executive 
officers. His connection with this and other 
literary matters has brought him into pleasant 
associations with many of the most prominent 
literary men of i his count ry and Europe. 

Mr. Estes has devoted himself very largely to 
various matters of public and private interest out- 
side of his publishing business, lie is a life mem- 
ber of the Bostonian Society, the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, American 
Archaeological Institute, and Maine Historical 
Society; associate member of the Cecilia and 
Apollo (musical) clubs of Boston; and member oi 
the Exchange Club, and the Massachusetts Be form 
Club. An enthusiastic amateur yachtsman, he is 
a member of the Eastern Yacht Club. He was a 
charter member of the Pine Tree State Club of 
Boston, was its secretary LS87-91, \ ice-president , 
1891-94, and president, 1894-96, 

At its commencement on June 23, 1898, Bow- 
doin College conferred the degree of A. M. upon 
Mr. Estes. 

Mr. Estes has for several years been a traveller 
and explorer in foreign lands. In the year 1903 
he made a journey of three thousand miles up the 
Nile to Equatorial Africa, visiting the Sudan and 
the Congo Country, and reaching Uganda; and re- 
turning with many interesting souvenirs of his 
unique journey. He was the first American to 
pa-.- through one part of the White Nile. 

Mr. Estes was first married April 11. 1867, to 
Louisa S., daughter of Peter and Mary (Filgate) 
Reid, uf England. He was married second, No- 
vember 10, 1884, to Grace D. (Coues) Page, 
daughter of Samuel E., and Charlotte Haven 
(Ladd) Coues, of Portsmouth, X. II. By the first 
marriage there are three children: Frederick 
Reid, Dana, Jr.. and Philip Sydney Estes. 




J. A. Schweinfurth. 

SCHWEINFURTH, J. A., architect , soil of Charles 

.1. and Catherine Amnion Schweinfurl h of Auburn, 
\. Y., was Lorn in Auburn, X. Y., in 1863. 
Married in 1889 to Mary Prances Bellows, daugh- 
ter of the late C. L. Bellows, Esq., of Boston, and 
has one son, Charles, now attending the Brookline 

Ill-ll School. 

Mr. Schweinfurth studied architecture in Paris. 
Rome, Florence, London and New ^ ork, and was 
with Messrs. Peabody <V- Stearns some fifteen 
years. 

He also practiced architecture in Cleveland. 
Ohio, and since 1895 has practiced architecture 
in Boston. 

In Boston he was architect of No-. 43 and .'104 
Commonwealth avenue, NTs. 124 and 426 Beacon 
Street, the Lincoln Club ami oilier works. In 
Brookline the Pierce Grammar School, Pierce 

Primary Scl I, the Municipal Court House and 

Police Station, the residences of Frederick S. 
Coffin, C. D. 1 la miner. Joseph Homer and others; 
for Wellesley College .Wilder Hall. Cazenove Hall 
and Pomeroy Hall. Lor the Commonwealth 



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of Massachusetts, the Hancock Monument. At 
Champaign, Ills., the Public Library, and other 
importanl works in various parts of the country. 
He has recently been chosen architect of the new 
Baptist church in Beacon Street, Brookline, near 
( !<>olidge Corner. 




George Parker Bingham. 

Bin'gham, Georuk Parker, son of General Geo. 
B. Hinghani, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
February 27, 1854; lie was educated al the public 
schools of his native city, anil finished his educa- 
tion at the preparatory academy in Milwaukee. 
\i the age of sixteen years, he entered the shoe 
business with his uncle, of the firm of Charles \Y. 
Parker iV Co.; he remained with this firm for 
se\ eral years. A part nership was formed in 1880, 
under the firm name of Cloutman & Bingham for 
the manufacturing of shoes, which continued un- 
til 1894, when Mr. Bingham retired. In 1896, he 
entered the banking business a1 No. '.•'_> State 
Street, Boston, when' he has been located since. 
He was married, November 18, 1878, to ( leorgianna 
Fosdick, of Boston, daughter of William Fosdick, 



who was one of Boston's well-known dry goods 
merchants, being one of the firm of George S.Win- 
slow <i Co. 

Mr. Bingham resides at No. 43 Carlon Street- 
General George B. Bingham, the father "1 the 
subjee-1 of this sketch, was born in Rochester, X. 
Y., April 29, 1821. He was for many years a 
prosperous builder in Milwaukee, and prominenl 
in the affairs of the city, and was known as a pub- 
lic spirited citizen, so much so, thai at the begin- 
ning of tin 1 Rebellion, he was the first man to en- 
list from the State of Wisconsin; he enlisted as 
Captain, and was promoted to a General, having 
seen service from 1861 to the close of the war; he 
was in the engagement at the battle of "Bull 
Run," and accompanied General Sherman on the 
".March through Georgia." 

General Bingham died in West born. Mass. 




Nathaniel A. Francis. 
Francis, N \tii wir.i. A., the well known and highly 
respected lawyer, was born in Brookline in LS59, 
graduated from the Harvard haw School in 1881. 
He was married December 12, 1900, to Christiana 
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Dr. Everett M. Bowker. 

I '-u 1. 1 i;. Evkki ii M , Brookline physician and 
member Hi' m'I I and Republican town commit- 
tees, was born in Machias, Maine, November 2, 

1S66, s I' Watts II. and Julia M. (Lyon) 

Bowker. He was a pupil in the public schools oi 
Brookline, Mass., from 1 870; determining to study 
for the medical profession, he entered the Harvard 
I'niversity Medical School and was graduated M. 
I».. ISni. Hi- practiced in Brooldine and was 
made a member of the American Medical Associa- 
tion; of the Massachusetts Medical Legal Society 
and of the Norfolk District Medical Society. In 
1898 he was made secretary of the second Pension 
Board oi I uited States Examining Surgeons and 
still held the office in 1006. He was a charter 
member of the Brookline lodge of Elks; associate 
Medical Examiner for the 8th Norfolk District 
from 1S98; a member of the Pine Tree State Club 
i 'I Boston; a member of the Brookline school com- 
mittee from 1S08 and a member of the Brookline 
Republican Committee from IS99. Dr. Bowker 
was married December 3, 1895 to, Lucy \ 
daughter of William J.Griggs, and their child- 
ren were: Philip Griggs, Winthrop Harold, 
Everett M.. Jr., and Eleanor. 



William Henry Lincoln. 
Lincoln, William Henri . was born in Boston, 
Mass., June 13, 1835, sun of Henry and Charlotte 
A. (Lewis) Lincoln. When eighteen years of age 
lie became a clerk in the office el* his father who 
was a shipping merchant and owner of a line of 
el ip pel- -hip,-. In IS56 lie was admitted a partner 
in the management of a line of sailing packets be- 
tween Boston and the ports of Mobile, New ( Irleans 
ami Galveston. The secession of the southern 
states destroyed this trade and the partnership 
was dissolved. He then formed a partnership 
with Frank N. Thayer in the ship chandlery I nisi - 
in- - "ii Lewis Wharf, Boston, and Thayer <S Lin- 
coln established a line of sailing ships, some of 
which they built at Newburyport, Mass., and 
Kennebunk, Maine, and acquired others by pur- 
chase. The last ship they launched was the John 
Currier, which cosl $120,000 and was the last 
wooden ship to leave the stocks in any Massachu- 
setts shipyard. In 1872, they secured the winter 
agency of the Dominion Line of Steamers to land 
ai Boston, their summer porl being Montreal. 
They also secured the American agency for the 
Leyland Lino of Steamships, between Liverpool 
and Boston, and subsequently Mr. Lincoln was 
made the resident director of the line. Mr. Lin- 
coln served as secretary of the Voting Men's 
Christian Association, 1857-01. and as vice-presi- 
dent in I860. He served Brookline as a member 
"I the school committee for twenty-two vears.and 
he was chosen chairman of the board at sixteen 
annual elections. One "f the largest school Intil- 
ings in the town is named for him. the "Lincoln 
School." He was elected president of the Brook- 
line Savings Bank, in ls77 and 1904. He was 
president of the Boston Commercial Club, 1SS3 
S6: and president of the Chamber from 1900 to 
1904; a member of the corporation of the Massa- 
chusetts institute of Technology, from 1895; a 
trustee of Welleslev College from 1S9S; director 
"I the Bostonian Soeiety. Mr. Lincoln was 
married, April 21, 1863. to Cecelia Frances, daugh- 
ter of .lame- W. and Eliza F. Smith, of Boston 
They have four children. 

During the period of the Civil War, Mr. Lincoln 
was a member of the Independent Corps of Cadets 
nl Boston, and saw service for a short period on 
guard duty at Fori Warren, Boston Harbor, lie 
was a member of St. Andrew's Lodge of Free and 
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George Haie Barrus. 

Barrus, George Hai.e, expert and consulting 
engineer, Boston, Mass. ,w a- born in Goshen, Hamp- 
shire County, Mass., July 11, 1854; son of Hiram 
and Augusta (Stone) Barrus. George Hale Bar- 
rus as a boy took special interest in the use of 
wood working and other funis, preferring to spend 
his leisure time at work with these, rather than at 
play with other boys. As he was brought up in the 
country he was accustomed to manual labor 
about the house, barn and garden, assisting his 
parents who were dependent upon a small income : 
These boyhood hardships fortified a naturally 
healthy body and served to build up a self reliant 
character. He was educated in the public and 
high schools of Reading, Mass., and was gradual ed 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, de- 
partment of Mechanical Engineering, S. B., 1S74, 
and lie remained at the Institute as assistant in 
the designing and construction department of a 
Steam Engineering laboratory, the first of its 
kind in any polj-technic school in the United 
States. The laboratory was fitted with a 1"> 
horse power Corliss engine, a superheater, a sur- 
face condenser, indicators, tanks and other appli- 
ances as necessary for t he purpose of actual exper- 



iment, lie served as judge of power exhibits at 
the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Associa- 
tion hairs repeatedly; as judge at the Franklin 
Institute Electrical Exhibition in Philadelphia, 
and as t he Massachuset ts judge, and on power ex- 
hibit- at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 
1S03. 

His invention-' include a variety of forms of 
the steam calorimeter, a coal calorimeter, a 
draught gage and a steam boiler. In the Ameri- 
can Society of Mechanical Enghieers of which he 
was a member, he served on the several commit- 
tees of thai society for devising standard met hods 
for treating boiler--, engines, pumps and locomo- 
tives, and as chairman of t he commit tee on Stand- 
ard Tests of pumping engines. He was elected to 
membership in the Society of Naval Architect - and 
Marine Engineers; of the Boston Societ} ol 
Civil Engineers and of the New England Water- 
works Association. His club affiliations include 
the Engineers Club, the Technology Club, and the 
Boston Club of Boston, and the Allston Golf Club. 
As an expert his professional services were em- 
ployed by over one hundred of the leading manu- 
facturers and other users of steam ami power m 
all parts of the United States and ( 'anada. In his 
professional capacity he multiplied his tests ol va- 
rious kinds on boilers, engines, pump.- and allied 
machinery by the thousands. 

He was also frequently called upon as an expert 
witness in important cases in litigation. 

While a resident of Reading in 1SS6, he was ac- 
tive in effecting a union between the two Congre- 
gational Churches of that town, long separated 
While a resident of Dorchester he was a member 
of the vestry of St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal 
Church and also served a.- treasurer of the corpo- 
ration. 

On removing to Brookline lie made St. 1'aul's 
ami Trinity churches in Boston his church homes. 
In national politic- Mr. Barrus was always an ar- 
dent Republican. lie was married October -'. 
1897, to Louisa C. Williams, daughter of Dyer and 
Louisa (Burnett) Williams, of Syracuse, New 
York. His professional book- include; "Tabor 
Steam famine Indicator." lstiti: "Boiler Tests." 
1891; "Engine Tests." 1900; "TheStar Improved 
Indicator." 1903, and his contributions on engineer- 
ing subjects to the technical pre-,- and the "Tran- 
sactions" of the American Society of Mechanical 
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Week" he was made president of the committee, 
:i]nl the affair was eminently successful. In L905 
he was elected treasurer of the Boston Club. 




Otto J. Piehler. 

Pieiiler, Otto J., furrier, was born in Boston, 
Mass., ( >ctober 28, 1S64. He was educated in I he 
public schools and t ooka course of prh ate tutoring, 
and then engaged as an apprentice in the fur 
trade and in this way acquired a thorough knowl- 
edge of the business; and through this knowledge 
he has established the largest exclusive fur im- 
porting and manufacturing house in New Eng- 
land and made the handling of fine furs a special- 
ty. He resisted the temptation to increase trade 
by adding other goods that might be demanded 
by customers, until the year 1906 at the earnest 
solicitation of his patrons, a department for the 
sale of the well-known Knox Hal has been added. 
He was fortunate in obtaining a location on 
Tremont Street opposite Park street and the 
entrance to the subway, and his customers in- 
clude the best and most fashionable New Eng- 
land families. He was married August 11, 1SS7, 
to Anna E. Vickery of Boston, and they have 
one son and two daughters. 

Their home is on the Beacon Boulevard, No. 
I7.V1 Beacon Street, Brookline. His summer 
home is at Bayside, Hull, and in 1903 when that 
ancient town celebrated its first "Old Home 




Isaac Van Horn. 

Horn, Isaac, Van, the young Boston banker 
and well Known resident oi Brookline was born in 
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in IS65, and is a 
descendant from one of the old and well known 
Holland Dutch families in that sect ion of Pennsyl- 
vania, his grandfather, Isaac Van Horn, after 
whom he was named, having; keen one of the best 
known characters in that section. 

His boyhood days were spent in the city oi 
Philadelphia where he resided until nineteen 
years of age, when he removed to the West, where 
he was prominently identified with financial and 
political affairs until 1S95, when he took up his 
resilience in the city "f Boston, and established 
the banking firm of Isaac Van Horn it Co. 

In 1SS6 he married Miss Clara Callanan of 
Omaha, Neb., a niece of the Hon. James Callanan 
of DesMoineS, la., lately deceased, one of the best 
known financiers and philanthropists of t he \\ est. 

Mr. Van Horn's business interests are largely 
in t lie Slate of Wyoming \\ here he is interested in 
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tions.etc. Since the passage of the bill by Congress, 
authorizing the building of the Panama Canal, he 
has become interested in a large project at San 
Diego, Cal., at which poinf is located practically 
i he first enclosed harbor north of the canal <>n the 
Pacific coasl , and which it is expected upon com- 
pletion of the canal will become an extremely 
prominent point in the world's shipping. 

While of domestic habits, lie is a member of the 
New Algonquin, Boston and Home Markel Clubs, 
the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, as well 
as a number of other social and charitable institu- 
tions. 




Charles A. W. Spencer. 

Sri \' u,\ Charles A. \Y .. was born in Clare- 
i n< «nt . X. [{., May 27, ls.51 \ resident of Brook- 
line, since 1S79: Town Auditor for nine years, 
from 1SS4 to 1890. and 1S94-1S95, when lie re- 
signed. Printer and publisher; owner oi the 
Riverdale Press, and Editor of the Chronicle; 

Treasurer of Music ('onnnitt >l the Brookline 

Educational Society; member of Republican 
Town Committee, since 1893. 




George H. Johnson. 

Johxso.y, George H., Chief of the Eire Depart- 
ment of Brookline.anda prosperous business man, 
was burn August is. 18/51, in Litchfield, Litch- 
field County, Me., sun of George I. Johnson. 
The latter, who was born in Freeport, Me., during 
the earlier year- oi Ins life was engaged in ship- 
building. In 1S.5C he came to Brookline where he 
was employed at carpenter's work for some time. 
He subsequenth served on the police force for a 
number of years, after which he resumed his trade, 
becoming foreman of the shop established by his 
son, George II. He is a strong supporter of the 
Republican party, and for some time has been 
constable of the town. 

By his wife, Frances, who is a daughter of 
.lames Chase, of Litchfield, Me., he became the 
father of three children, namely: George II.. the 
special subject of this sketch; Rosa, the wife of 
Mathev Burns; and Frank, a member of the 
police force. Both parents attend the Baptist 
( 'hurch. 

George II. Johnson having been but five years 
old when his parents removed to Brookline, he 
was educated in both the common and high 
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ics from his youth. Having learned the carpen- 
ter's trade he worked as a journeyman for thirteen 
years. In 1S82 he embarked in business on his 
own account. Besides making a specialty of 
jobbing, he does considerable building in this 
locality. In 18S4 he was elected to the Board of 
Water Commissioners for a term of three years; 
and he was re-elected in 1SS7, 1S90, 1893, and 
1896. In these years the water-works and sewer 
system were greatly improved, and are now the 
equal of any other New England town. 

In 1876 Mr. Johnson was appointed on the 



and six companies; and a fine alarm system has 
been established. < )n thr 'casions the depart- 
ment responded to alarms from Boston, and there 
gave valuable aid in extinguishing fires. 

Mr. Johnson is a member in high standing of the 
the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Beth-Horon 
Lodge, A. F. and A. M.. of Brookline; to St. Paul 
R. A. Chapter of Boston; and to lie Molaj 
Commandry, K. T., of Boston. He is likewise a 
prominenl member of Laomia Lodge, I. O. 0. I.. 
of whirl i he was for a number ol years the treas- 
urer; of the Knights of Honor of this town; of the 




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Board of Engineers connected with the fire de- 
partment, and m the following years he was 
made chief of the department, a very important 
position which he has since efficiently filled. Jlr 
has been connected with the depart men I . with the 
exception of two years since 1869; and with but 

two exceptions, he is tl Idesi fireman on the 

entire force in poinl of service. In the past 
twenty years the equipments and force of the de- 
partment have been increased from one hand 
engine and two companies to two large steamers 



Massachusetts Charitable Association of Boston; 
of the Si a i e Association of Fire ' 'hiefs; and of the 
I ireman's Relief Association of which he has hern 
the presidenl since its organization. 

In December, 1880, he married Miss Calista 
Longfellow, one of the nine children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Gates Longfellow. Mrs. Johnson who was 
born and reared on a farm in Machias, Me., where 
her father was engaged in agricultural pursuits, is 
an active w< irker in religious circles and a member 
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King C. Gillette. 

(in. LETT] . King < '.. inventor and manufacturer 
of the well-known Gillette Safety Razor, was I huh 
at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, January 5, lS5o;son of 
George W. and Fanny I.. (Camp) Gillette. The 
family removed to Chicago when he was four 
years old. He was educated in the public schools 
of Chicago, and left school al the age of 1 7 \ ears. At 
an early age he engaged inthe hardware business, 
and afterwards travelled extensively, both in 
tins country and abroad. For a tunc he resided 
in London, but returned to this country and now 
makes his home in Brookline, having bought the 
beautiful Lombard estate on the Beacon Street 
Boulevard. His father, George VV. Gillette was 
engaged some years in the manufacturing and 
selling of a patented invention of his own ; his two 
olilcr brothers were in business with him. In 
tunc, invention connected with the particular 
industry to which his father's patents applied, 
dominated and directed the united ability and 
inventive powers of Ins father and brothers. 
They were a family knit together by close bonds 
of affection and mutual interest. Ii was only 
natural that he should be attracted by the possi- 
bilities of invention, and finalh became absorbed 



in inventive thought. Like all inventors, they 

had their ups and downs, and at times it see) I 

as though they might 1»' counted out altogether, 
but there is no hope like that which springs et ernal 
in i he soul of t he inventor. 

The flower may wit her and I lie stalk be blasted, 
but the routs once firmly plained will send forth 
new stalks, and new ideas will blossom as long as 
i here is lite and i he brain is active. Invention is 
a creative instinct, the crowning attribute of the 
Creator of all things. Cpon invention or dis- 
cos ery, which are synonj mous terms as used here, 

depends all progress. 

I here wen- t imes when they were obliged to lay 
aside the development of ideas of invention, for 
the reason that necessity demanded that they 
should obtain employment in order to tide over 
financial distress, and for this reason Mr. Gillette 
secured employment at intervals covering the 
period from the time he was seventeen years of 
age until he was forty-nine, when he became 
directly interested in the manufacture of his 
latest invention, the now well-known razor. 



Edward Henry Clement. 

i'i. ment, I'jiw \ni> Henry, son of Cyrus and 
Rebecca Fiske (Short ridge) Clement, was born in 
Chelsea. Mass., April 19, 1843. lie is a descen- 
dant of Robert Clement, who came from Coventry, 
England, in 1643, who was chosen to buy and sur- 
vey the territory of Haverhill; afterwards he 
represented the town in the General Court. His 
mill was the first in the town, and the marriage of 
his son was the first marriage in Haverhill. Ed- 
ward 11., was educated in the Chelsea public 
schools and at Tufts College, from which he 
graduated in 1S64, leading his class. Subsequent- 
ly he received from Tufts the honorary degree of 
A.M. He began his professional life as a reporter 
and assistant editor of an army-post newspaper, 
st ailed with the deserted plain of the ''Savannah 
News" by two correspondents of the "New York 
Herald" stationed at Hilton Head, S. C. In 1S67 
he returned to Boston, and for a month was 
chief proof-reader of the "Daily Advertiser". 

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ever, John Russell Young, then the managing 
editor of the " Tribune," gave him a place as a re- 
porter. Soon after lie was promoted to the posi- 
tion of exchange editor, then advanced to the 
telegraph editor's desk, and thru to that "1 
night editor. Subsequently lie was for a short 
time managing editor of the "Newark (N. .1.) 
Daily Advertiser," and in 1871 he became one oi 
the editors and proprietors of the "Elizabeth 
(X. .1.) Journal." in ls7"> he was railed to Boston 
to take the position of assistant editor oi the 
"Transcript," which at that time was under the 
editorship of William A. Hovey. Cpon Mr. 



William Jones Griggs. 

Gkiogs, William Joxes, of Brookliiie, was 
born t here on June 6, 1821, son of Deacon Thomas 
and Harriet i Fuller) ( Iriggs. 

Deacon Thomas < Iriggs was born, April .">. 1788, 
on the Griggs farm, where he resided until the 
death of his fat her. He had a pari of the original 
farm; later he purchased more land, and in 1845 
buill upon his property the house now standing. 
Some time alter he removed to a house on Wash- 
ington Street, situated on a part ol the -a me farm, 
and i hen- -pent the last years of Iris life, dying at 




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Eiovey's retirement, in 1881, Mr. Clement was 
promoted to the position of chief, which he held 
until 1905, being retired at his own request; he 
is still connected with the staff. He has ably 
maintained the paper upon the lines laid down by 
the long line of eminent editors of this favorite 
Boston institution. 

H,e has been connected with a number of local 
organizations, among them the Boston Memorial 
Association and the Philharmonic Society; and 
he was one of the founders of the St. Botolph 
Club, of which he is still a member. In 1869, Mr. 
Clement was married in New York City, to Miss 
Gertrude Pound; they have three children. 



the age of ninety-nine year-. He served the town 
in various capacities. He was selectman for 
m:iii\ yea rs and o\ cr-cer of the poor and assessor. 
His wife, Harriet, was a daughter of Jonathan 
Fuller of Needham; She died August 13, 1867, at 
the age of seventy years. Deacon Thomas Gi ■'■■ 
and his wife had a family of seven children; 
they were: Caroline, deceased, born January '_'7, 
1820, married David Sullivan Coolidge; William 
J., the subjeel of this sketch; Man Jane, born 
September 18, 1S22; Ellen, deceased, born May 
.">. 1824; Thomas B., born May 1, 1826; Amanda, 
deceased, born May 26, 182S;and Francis Henry, 
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William .1. < iriggs all cut led the common schools 
and later Worcester Academy. From Worcester 
he returned home to help Ins father; when the 
latter removed to the house on Washington 

Street . Mr. < iriggs took possessi if the old home 

and sinne fifty acres of land, which lie cultivated 
as a vegetable garden. He subsequently sold a 
number of building hits and had lefl aboul t wenty 
acres of 1 he original farm. 

The first town office In which he was elected 

was that of Highway Surveyor, which he held for 

four years. In 1862 lie was elected Selectman 

and held thai responsible position for eight con- 



Fay ette Frederick Forbes. 

Forbes, Fayette Frederick, superintendent 
nl the Brookline Water Department, was born in 
liuckland, Mass., May 9, 1S51, son of Frederick 
and Mary Ann (Richmond) Forbes, lie was 
educated in the public schools of his native town 
and took an academic course in Ashfield, Mass., 
then entered the scientific departmenl in the 
Willis! mi Seni ma n ui' East Hampton, from which 
he acquired a full knowledge of civil engineering; 
he w a- at i hi- i urn nineteen years old. 

lie was engaged on the Holvoke Water Works 




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secutive years, lie ha- also been Overseer oi 
the Poor, and was a member of the Board of 
Water Commissioners during the first ten years 

subsequent to the formati I' i he board. Ii 

was during his term of office that I lie high service 
\\a- introduced. 

In 1S65, Mr. Griggs was united m marriage 
with Mary E. Gipson, a native nl' South Boston; 
four children have been born In Mi', and Mis. 
< iriggs, three of whom, Sarah, Waller A. and Lucy 
A. are living. Mr. < Iriggs died in Brookline in 
1906. 



a- civil engineer I'm' a short time, titter winch he 
was employed on the Troy & Greenfield Rail- 
Road during its relocation of the work, after 
which he was engaged mi special work for the 
Boston & Albany 1!. R. December '.K 1S73, he 
entered the engineering department of Brookline, 
constructing t he water works under Mr. I 'In I brick. 
In 1S76 he was appointed superintendent of the 
Brookline Water Works, being the first in occupv 
that position which he nov holds (1906). He has 
served i he town faithfully and longer than any 
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town in the United States has a better water ser- 
vice, and it is often the reason why householders 
have selected Brookline for a residence; its im- 
portance is such that the town has no hesitancy in 
appropriating whatever sum of money is necessa r\ 
for the maintenance of such a necessity. 

Before closing this article a few words may be 
said about his grandfather, Daniel Forbes, who 
was a remarkable man in his day; he lived to be 
■S4 years of age, and during lus time lie taught H7 
terms, including singing and writing in the public 
schools of Buckland, Ashtield and Hawlev, Mass- 

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of Mi'. Sturtevant he succeeded him as agent of 
the Mills. 

He was married in 1S73 to Frances Sturtevant. 

Mi'. Clarke served nine months in the Rebellion 
with i he 44 1 h Mass. Regiment. He is a member of 
the Masonic order of Andover, Mass. He is 
i reasurer of the \\ nil limp Mills ( Company of Win- 
throp, Maine, and ( 'lint on Mills of Norwich,! !onn., 
manufacturing dress goods, carriage cloth, broad- 
cloth, billiard cloths and blankets. 




Amasa Clarke. 

Clarke, Amasa, resident of Brookline for a 
mini her of years, was born in Andover, Mass., son 
of Francis and Sarah (Marland) Clarke. 

His father was a prominent physician of Ando- 
ver, Mass., and his mother was the daughter of the 
first woolen manufacturer in this country. Mr. 
Clarke obtained his education in i he public schools 
of Andover and ai Phillips Academy. On leav- 
ing school In' was engaged in the wool business 
tor some time after which he became associated 
with Mr. John 1 >. Sturtevant, ami mi the death 




Benjamin F. Baker. 

Baker, Benjamin 1'., was a well-known and 
honored citizen of Brookline. He was horn 
August 28, 1820, in Kennebunk, Me. Came to 
Brookline 111,1843, and settled in the town as a 
painter, purchasing a business that was estab- 
lished in 1S15. He represented the town in the 
State Legislature, and in 1852 was elected town 
clerk, a position which he was elected to continu- 
ously until his death September in, 189S. He 
was a member oi the hoard of trustees of the 
Brookline Public Library; member of the Histori- 
cal Society; Beth-horon Lodge of Masons; Royal 
Arcanum; Master Painters Association, and trus- 
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His sun. Edward \V. Baker, in 1S011 was elected 
to succeed him as town clerk and lias been elected 
e\ er\ \ ear since. 




Dr. Tappan Eustis Francis. 

I i; \ \i is.'l" uta x Ei stis, physician ill Brooklinei 
was horn in Boston, Mass., August -V 1S23; 
son of the Rev. Convers (1795-1863) ami Abbe\ 
Bradford (Allyn) Francis, grandson of Convers 
and Susanna (Rand) Francis ami of the Rev. 
John Allyn, D. !>., of Duxbury Mass., and a 
descendant from Richard Francis, who came from 
England and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts 
Bay Colony, in 1636. llis father was graduated 
at Harvard College V I '■ . 1815, A. M.. ISIS, S. J 
1 1.. 1837; completed a course in the Harvard, 
Divinity School in ISIS; pastor of Unitarian 
Church, Watertown, Mass., 1S1S-42; Parkman 
professor of pulpil eloquence and pastoral care 
Harvard University, 1S42-63; overseerof Harvard 
1831-43; member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society; author ami biographer, l.ydia .Maria 
( 'In Id. t he distinguished author, was a ,-ister of the 
Rev. Dr. Convers Francis. Tappan Eustis Fran- 
cis was graduated from Harvard, A. B., 1844, M 
I)., 1848; practiced in Roxbury, Mass., when that 
town included the territory now comprising the 



town of Brookline. He was the town physician of 
Roxbury, removed to Newton Lower Falls and 
thence to Brookline. He was recognized as one of 
t he leading physicians of Massachusel is. He was 
married May (', 1n.v>. to Helen daughter of 
I >r. Augustine Shurtleff of Brookline, and a 
descendant from William Shurtleff who came 
from i orkshire, England, to Plymouth, Flymout h 
Colon} in 1628, and on his removal to Marshfield 
was familiarly known as "William Shurtleff of 
Marshfield," ami a brief notice of this earl)' emi- 
grant was prepared by his descendant, Nathaniel 
Bradstreet Shurtleff (1810-1874). See "Brief 
N'otice of William Shurtleff of Marshfield" I L850). 
The children of Dr. Tappan Eustis and Helen 
(Shurtleff) Francis were: George Hill- Francis, 
M. D.. (q. v.); Dr. Carleton S. Francis and Na- 
thaniel A. Francis, Lawyer, (q. v.) 

Munroe Goodspeed. 

Goodspeed, Mi x i ; i > i : , livery and stable keeper 
ai 383 Washington St.. Brookline, was born in 
Montgomery, Vermont, July 15, 1842. lie is the 
son of Salvia and ( 'arshenia (Johnson) Goodspeed. 
lie attended the public schools until he was four- 
teen years of age and then went to work on his 
father'.- farm. At the age of twent} years, being 
desirous of improving his condition, he came to 
Boston with a determination to succeed, and 
u orked for a conl racl or for a short t ime. I le t lien 
returned to Vermont to help his father, remained 
a year, then returned to Boston where he secured 
a position with the International Telegraph ' oiii 
pany, which position he held for some lime. He 
then resigned in order to enter a more lucrative 
business; the Company offered him a great induce- 
ment to sta\ . bill lie declined h do so. lie came 

to Brookline in 1863, and was employed by the 
Collins & Chase Express Company; in 1870 he 
became one of i he partners in the firm. He -oil 
out liis interest in this firm and in 1873 he became 
a partner of Stone & Williams of Brookline, in the 
stable and liven business; eventually the firm 
became Stone & Goodspeed. In 1n7!» Mr. Stone 
died and Mr. Goodspeed became sole proprietor. 
It is quite natural that Mr. Goodspeed should 
finally enter t his business ; as a boy he was always 
fond of horses, ami when on his father's farm he 
traded horses quite frequently, to a substantial 
profit ; his knowledge of horses is well known to 
the leading dealer- and owners of l he country. 



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He was married October 1, 1S71, to Martha R. 
Kimball, daughter of Sylvester Kimball of Brook- 
line; they had two children, one daughter and 
one -on . Carl M. Goodspeed, who was educated in 
the schools of Brookline, graduating from the 
high school, after which lie took :i course ;it Bryant 
iV Stratton's Commerci;il College. He is now the 
owner i if the stable business, having succeeded his 
father, who felt that in justice to himself, he 
should enjov rest . 




Albion F. Bemis. 

Bkmis, Albion F., of Brookline, a direct de- 
scendant in seventh generation from Joseph 
Bemis who came i<> tin- country from England 
and settled in Watertown in 1640, and from whom 
all of the various families of that name have 
sprung, was born in Brookfield in 1856, and spent 
In- early boyhood mi a farm. He early acquired 
a thirst For knowledge and succeeded in earning 
his waj through the Springfield high school and 
Amherst college, where he graduated in 1SS0 with 
high honors, being one of the eight commence- 



ment speakers, and being elected to the Phi Beta 
Kappa society. 

Hi' immediately entered upon a business career 
which lie pursued with uninterrupted success for 
20 years, becoming one of the largest manufac- 
t urers of st raw goods in the country. The loss of 
his plant by fire in 1900, and a combination 
among the straw goods manufacturers making it 
inopportune for him to re-enter business at the 
time, left him free, and he was prevailed upon to 
accept a i luminal ion for t he House ol Representa- 
tives in 1'. Kin. ami was duly elected and served for 
two years, lie was placed upon the committee 
of public lighting which held the public attention 
at the time, and early assumed leadershipof that 
committee, as well as federal relations, before 
which new political theories were constantly being 
exploited. lie was an ardent admirer and sup- 
porter of Governor Crane and sunn came to lie 
looked upon as one of the House leaders. He was 

elected to t he Senate in 1902, where lie also served 

i wo years and t here continued t lie success in legis- 
lation which hi' had sn well begun in the House. 
Senator Bemis showed such a capacity lor hard 
work that in hi- second year, besides being made 
chairman of metropolitan affairs, lie was placed 
upon live other important committees, making a 
record probablv unequalled in the annals oi that 
honorable body. 

Senator Bemis was the champion ol the manu- 
facturing interests of the state during his four 
years at t ho state house, and has by voice and vote 
aided all measures that looked inward good 
government . tempera nee and a proper observance 
of the I.< in!'- Day. 

Senator Bemis, notwithstanding having led a 
very busy and active life, has found time to take 
two extended trip- abroad and to assume Ins full 
share of church and civic dune- He was for 
several years chairman of board of selectman and 
school committee of the town ol Foxboro, and 
al-o served as chairman of its important building 
committees. A life-long Republican and party 
worker, personally ho is agreeable and pleasant to 
meet , and has a host of friends. He i- a 32d degree 
Mason, an Odd Fellow, Grange Grand Knight oi 
11, mill'; a member of the Home Market chili. 
Republican club of Massachusetts and Norfolk 
club, and belongs to many social club- in New 
Vork and Boston, a- well a- the Thursday club of 
Brookline. 



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!',' <\ I >[' LN-HYSFJ 'I'll I. II' 'I SK 

One of the most interesting objects in B klir is a large old-fashioned building on Boylston Street opposite the 

Westerly end of the Ueservoii It was first occupied by the Bovlston family, later by the Hyslop famih and at terwards 
hy Henry bee. Esq., whose «>n, George Lee, resides there at the present time During the [{evolution, Colonial troops 
were quartered therefor :i time. With the exception of a few trifling alterations the building today presents the same 

appearance as it did in the time of t lie Boylstoi 



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William Barnas Sears. 

Sears. William Barxas, a well-known resident 
of Brookline, son of Rev. Barnas ami Elizabeth 
Griggs (Corey) Scars, daughter of Deacon E. 
Corey, was born in Hamilton, X. V., June 11. 1S32. 
He received his education in private schools. He 
was engaged for a time as assistant teacher in the 
E'ierce Academy, Middleboro, in the depart- 
ments of German, Latin and Creek, after which 
he was engaged in mercantile business for eleven 
vears; in June, 1861, he was commissioned by 
Governor Sprague. 1st Lieutenant, 2d regiment. 
Rhode bland Volunteers, and received a cap- 
tain's commission, October 28, of thai year. He 
was mustered out of service June 17. 1S64, at the 
expiration of his Term of service. 

He was Senior Vice-Commander of Posl 26, 
G. A. U.. and an original member of the Post . He 
was Commander of Posl 143, G. A. R-, Brookline, 
two yi ars, and has been re-elected twice since. 
He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artillery, ten years; Roxbury Horse Guards, 1st. 
Mass. Cavalry Militia, cighl years; Captain of 
Company C, 1st. regiment, Mass. Militia, during 
the Boston lire. 



He has been a member of the Loyal Legion since 
1S71 Served on the staff of General Wm. Cogs- 
well. Department Commander of Massachusetts, 
; ,u (l ,,n the Staff of Governor Lucius Fairchild, 
National Department, Commander-in-Chief, G. 
\ i; He was president of the 2d. R. I. Veteran 
Associat ion . 1SS1 . 

Mr. Sears has Ween a member of the Boston 
Baptist Social Inion since 1S6S. He is a promi- 
nent member of the Masonic Fraternity, 32d 
degree. His business has been that of Fire In- 
surance Agent since 1865. 

Mr. Sears was married in Roxbury, February 
1, 1S63. to Emily A., daughter of Stephen and 
Rebecca \V. (Langley) Faunce. His second 
marriage was with Sadie A. Hunt, Oct. 24, 1SS1, 
in ['rovidence, R. L His children are Wm. B. 
Sears, Jr.. Langley B., Harry Bowers, Stephen F. 
and Edward II Sears. 




Almon Cooper, M. D. 

C mi;. Almox, M. D.. son of Ivory and Vnna 

\\ (Xeal) Cooper, was born in South Berwick. 
Maine, January 9. 1863. 

He was educated in the schools of Salmon Falls, 
\. ip. and South Berwick, Maine. He began the 



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n Xew York City, May 31. LS93, 
National and vai 
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to Ai - settled in Salis 

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e to Gloucester from 1 setei 
re 167S. 
Pr. M ' June 

30. 1S7S \''". Ri Corliss, of Brighton. 

M ss hild. Beatrice Coi - 

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tending t he public 

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Medical Society. 1800; Massachusetts Homoeopa- 
thic Medical Society . 1891 ; American Institute of 
Homoeopathy. 1892; and Beth-Horon Lodge. 
1. A. M.. Brookline. 



ward Steeso and Ellen Sturtovanl Stoose oi Broi 
line. 




Norman H. White. 

ect 1 Massachusetts 1 egislal 

Wiiii i. Norman 11.. residenl of Brookline 
since 189(5. son of Henry White and Henrietta 
Hill White. Was born in Montclair. N. J.. Dec. 
•_'."). 1S71 ; received a public school education, 
fitting for Harvard University, from which he 
graduated in 1S95. While in college he was pres 
dent and manager of the Harvard University 
Base Ball Association, and presidenl of the Pi Eta 
Society. Shortly after leaving college he entered 
business, becoming treasurer of the Huston Book- 
binding Company, one of the most extensive 
establishments of the kind in the country. Aside 
from his regular business interests he is interested 
in the firm of Small. Maynard >v Company, the 
well-known publishers of Boston. Mr. White 
was eleete.l in 1905 a director of the Brookline 
National Bank, he is also a director in the Brook- 
line Friendly Society. In I s '."'' he was married to 
Miss < iertrude Steese. daughter of the late Dr. l-'.d- 




Michael Driscoll. 

Driscoll. Michael. Superintendent oi Streets 
and member of the School Board, in the town ol 
Brookline. was born in Brookline. Mass.. April Is. 
1844. He was educated in the public schools ol 
Brookline. and after leaving school entered mer- 
cantile business in Boston for a short tune, and 
then went to work for hi- father a- contractor. 
April 10. 1878, he was elected Superintendent oi 

Streets in Brookline. which position h TUpies 

at the present time I 1906). He is also a member 
of the school hoard. He was married November, 
1873. to Margaret I. Shea. In whom he had five 
children, four of whom are living; Mrs. Driscoll 
died in 1883. In January. 1887. he married Ellen 
O'Hearn. of Brookline (died in 1898). b\ whom 
|„. had three children. Hi- eldesl son, James M . 
is Superintendent of Holyhood and St. Joseph's 
cemeteries in Brookline. 

Mr. Driscoll is a member i f Mass. Catholic ' ' 
,1,-r of Forresters, Knights of Columbus. Catholic 
Union "i Boston and the Brookline Historical So- 
ciety. His long service as Superintendent oi the 
Brookline Street Department is unequalled by any 
,,, w ,i or city in the United States, which is an indi- 
cation that his able administration is appreciated 
bv the residents of Brookline. 



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RESIDEXCl ii| MRS .]n|l\ 1. GARDNER. WARREX STREEI BROOKLIX1 



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Charles Granville Way. 

Way. Charles Granville, o real estate dealer 
of Boston, and a resident of Brookline, Mass., is a 
descendant in the ninth generation from his Tun- 
tan progenitor in America. 

Samuel A. Way (son of Lorin and Lettice C. 
Way, and the father of Charles Granville Way), 
1>, ,111 at Lemster, December 17. 1816, died in Bos- 
ton, June 4, 1S72. It was he who organized the 
first bank under the free banking laws of Massa- 
chusetts. 

He was president of the Bank of Met ropolis, all 
i lie stock of which he subsequently purchased. 
His investments in real estate entitled him to lie 
classed among the largest holders of that kind of 
property. Way Street and Way Wharf in Boston 
are named after him. 

On August 11, 1836, he was married to Sarah 
Ann Simpson, who, horn at Boston, January 15, 
1821, died in Paris, France, March 2, 1n7C,. Her 
father, Daniel Simpson, horn at Winslow, Me., 
September 29, 1790, and who died in South Bos- 
ton, July 2s. 1886, was the keeper in his .lay of the 
famous old Green Dragon Tavern, said to have 
been the headquarter.- of the Revolution. The 
children of Samuel A., and Sarah A. Way were: 



Francis Clarence, horn at Boston, November 11. 

1S37, who died at Naples, Italy, on March Hi, 
istili; Charles Granville, the sub]ec1 of this -ketch ; 
and Daniel Simpson, bom in Boston, < (ctober 22. 
1844, who died at Roxbury, Mass., August 6, 1S47. 
Charles Granville Way was educated at the 
Roxbury Public School-, and at boarding schools 
j n Jamaica Plain and ( irafton. Mass.; also m Paris, 
France, where he lived many years. He was a 
pupil of the celebrated artist . Lambenel .and Dar- 
Doize. and at the Jardin Plant, under the direction 
„f Barze. Heexhibited at the Vienna Exposition, 
and the Centennial of 1876, returning that year to 
the Cnited States on business which monopolized 
all his time lor several years, and lie gradually 
drifted to the real estate business, which he has 
followed for the last 30 years, being a holder of 
real estate in Hyde Park, Mass., including the Post 
Office Building, also property at Bass Rocks, 
Gloucester, and president of the Ten Associates, 
owner of many acre- of land at Long Beach. 
Gloucester. His most remarkable experience 
throughout that period ha- been the taking from 
him. by the Boston Terminal Company, the New 
York, New Haven A Hartford Company, and the 
Boston Elevated Street Railway Company, under 
the law of "eminent domain," of thirty estates, the 
same being more than these corporations have 
taken from any other real estate owner. Several 
-nit- at law were broughl against the corporations 
mentioned, involving interests amounting from 
three to five hundred thousand dollar-. 
Among hi- present possessions are residence 
m Brookline, Mass.. his summer residence 
at P.ass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass., said to 
have the finest situation of any along the North 
Shore, and the office and apartment buildings, 
S30 and S32 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 
In addition to the management of his own proper- 
ly, he has the management of several estates m 
,l„. capacity of trustee. He wrote a history of 
the Way family. In 18S7 he published the pam- 
phlet, "George Way and his Descendants;" he has 
also on hand a history of the American Colony of 
Artists at Pont-Aven, France, of which he ami 
Hubert Wilev were pioneer-. 

On November 29, 1S66, in Pari-, Mr. Way was 
married to Charlotte Elizabeth Fobes, who was 
bomal Roxbury, Mass., August 15, 1S45, daugh- 
ter of Edwin and Charlott,. Sophia (Farrington) 
Fobes. Her father, a native of Oakham, Mass., 



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born September 9, 1814, died in Boston, May 23, 
1S79; and her mother, born al Salem. Mas- . May 
-'1. 181S, died in Brookline. Mr. and Mrs. Way 
have t hive children : Marie Eloise, ( 'harles Art hur, 
and Helen ' Iranville. 

Charles An Inn- Way married Edyth C, Hanson, 
at Gloucester, Mass., Dec. 24, 1903; they have 
I wo children, Charlotte C, born Jan. 27, 1905, and 
Granville Way, born July 17. 1906, both al 
< lloucester, Mass. 

Marie Eloise, married Charles Porter Smith in 
Brookline, on June 14. 1900, and has now one 
child, Mane Wav, bom February 3. 1901. In re- 



Charles H. W. Foster. 

[mister, Chahles II. \V., sugar raiser, manu- 
facturer and refiner, business man and trustee, 
was born in Brookline. Norfolk County, Mass., 
November 30. 1S59, son of ( 'harles < Irin and ( 'aro- 
line B. (Candler) Foster, and a descendant from 
William Foster, who came from England to Bos- 
Ion, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1634, and from 
Fldei- Brewster and Steven Hopkins, passengers 
on i lie Mayflower, 1620. lbs father was a Boston 

merchant, and his mother was descended fr 

the Regnas who were Huguenot refugees, who 




RESIDENCE <>] JOSEPH II Wlllli: ROYLSTON STR] El 



ligion a lunarian, in politics Mr. Way is inde- 
pendent. The organizations of which he is a 
member include the New England Historic 
Genealogical Society, the Bostonian Society, the 
South Carolina Historical Society, the Boston Art 



found asylum in New York, locating in New 
Roehelle, Westchester County, in 1690. He was 
prepared for college in the Chauncy Hall School, 
Boston, and by private tutors, and was graduated 
at Harvard University, A. I'... 1SS1. He accepted 



Club, and the Longwood Club of Brookline. He the advice of his father and became an apprentice 

is the donor to the Boston Museum of bine Arts to sugar making in the Boston Sugar Refining 

of the valuable Egyptian antiquities known a- Company in August, 1881 ; and he served in each 

t he "Way Collection." 

Mr. Way is also a member of the Masonic Fra- 



distincl depart men I until he became master of the 
business, when he was made assistanl superinten- 
ternity, affiliating with Eleusis Lodge, F. and A. dent; and later advanced to a full superinten- 



M., and a member of the Massachusetts Consis- 
tory, thirty-second degree. 



dency of the refinery. He studied the process of 
planting, growing, harvesting and preparing the 



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crude sugar on a plantation in the West Indies 
during an entire season, and in LSSS he resigned 
the position of superintendent to accepl the trus- 
teeship of several large estates, tie was a charter 
member of the Brookline National Hank, and in 
1 8S6 was made a member of the board of directors, 
and in 1905 became president of the Bank, lie 
was made treasurer of the corporation of Chieker- 
ing A: Suns, piano manufacturers, in lS92,and is 
now presidenl of the corporation. lie was also pres- 
ident of i he Clayton i\ Sunnery Company, music 
publishers, and of the Henderson 1 (airy ( Company ; 
vice-presidenl of the Realty Company ; director in 
t he Foster's Wharf Company; the Merrimac Chemi- 
cal Company ;the Plymouth Cordage Company, and 
of various other business corporations. He was a 
truster and secretary of the Board of Trustees of 
the Massachusetts General Hospital. His club 
affiliations includes membership in the Eastern 
Yacht Club, of which he was commodore; Hie 
Tennis, the Ftacquel and the Union Club of Host on ; 
i he Country Club of Brookline; the University 
and New York Yacht Clubs, of Yew York City; 
the Beverly, Corinthian and Boston Yacht Clubs; 
and various Polo, Hunt and Country Clubs of the 
neighborhood of Boston, lie was married < >cto- 
ber 7. lSS5,to Mabel Chase Hill, and their family 
include seven children. 



Shaw, Avery A., Pastor of Brookline Baptisl 
Church since 1900, horn in Waterville, X. S.. 
Oct. 2, 1870. Educated in Berwick, X. S., Acadia 
College, Rochester, X. Y. Ordained June I K9(>, 
at Windsor, X. S. 





Rev. Avery A. Shaw. 



Daniel J. Daley. 

Daley, Daniel J., Assessor for the town of 
Brookline, was born there in 1877, and has a 1 wax's 
resided in the town. He was educated in the 
Brookline schools until 12 years of age, when he 
was thrown on Iris own resources. Five years 
later he attended night school for two years and 
studied at home. 

He was married at the age of 21 . and four years 
later began the study of law in the Evening haw 
School, lasi May completed his four vears' course. 

His early life was spent in the publishing and 
printing business, and for six years he was con- 
nected with the Brookline Chronicle. From 1900 
to 1906, he was employed as Inspector for the 
Brookline Water Department, and is familiar with 
every foot of ground in town, a fact which is 
of ureal assistance to the board of assessors. He 

was elected asse--or at the annual (1906) town 

meeting, receiving a verv large vote. 



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Thomas Parsons. 

Parsoxs, Thomas, a resident of Brookline from 
[848 to the time of his death, was born in Boston, 
Mass., ]ul\' 25, [816. lie was the son of Charles 
Chauncv and Judith (Parsons) Parsons. His grand- 
father was Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons of New 
burvport, Mass., who married Rlizabcth Greenleaf. 
The mother of Thomas Parsons was the daughter of 
Capt. Thomas and Judith (Kinsman) Parsons. 

In 1850, Mr. Parsons purchased the estate known 
as the "Cabot Farm" and "Amory Place," upon 
which was an old house, which he removed in in^:. 
and erected a house upon the same site, where he 
resided most of the time, passing the summer months 
in Mattapoisett, his residence running to the water's 
edge. 

The subject of this sketch was a lineal descendant 
on both his fat lu'i' and mother's side, from Rev. John 
Robinson of Levden. As an heirloom he had a side 
board in his possession brought over to this country 
by a son of the Rev. John Robinson. Mr. Parsons 
was educated in the common schools oi Boston, and 
fitted for 1 ollege in the Publii Latin School of Boston; 



entered Harvard College at the age of fourteen years, 
but o U ing to ill health was obliged to leave with only 
a partial course, lie then entered the counting room 
ol Benjamin l\i< h & Son, Kast India men hauls, 
where he served his term of apprenticeship, and then 
entered into business with his father, who was a 
men haul and owner of freighting ships, where lie 
remained lill [865. He was interested in manv cor- 
porations. He was president and director of the 
"Lyman Mill" at Holyoke, Mass. 

He became a resident of Brookline in [849, and 
always took a great interest in the welfare of the town. 
He was selectman from 185810 1:870, 1874 and 1875, 
many years chairman, member of the school com 
mittee, the same number of years ai ting as 1 hairman 
of the same. lie was an original member of the 
"Brookline Publii Library," and was one of the 
trustees from 1857 to 1883. Most of the time he 
was president of the same. IK' represented the town 
in the Legislature for -i\ years, [857-58-59-61 -02 -07, 
serving on the Finance Committee five years. He 
was a member of the Committee on the Revision of 
the Revised statutes in 1859, on the Valuation Com 
mittee in 1860. Appointed on the Board of Prison 
Commissioners b\ Governor Rice, and again by 
Governor Talbot, and « hairman oi the same for si.\ 
year In [854 lie was appointed as justice ol the 
pea 1 e. 

In 1S47 he married Martha Watson, daughter of 
Henry P. and Charlotte (Hi. knell) Franklin. Mr. 
Franklin was a merchant and wealthy manufacturer 
in Providence. The children of Mr. Parsons were 
I ilizabeth, Theophilus (.1 graduate of Harvard College 
in 1S70, Treasurer of the Lyman Mills of Holyol e, 
M.i-s. ), ( 'harlotte and Lui y. 

Mr. Parsons died in Mattapoisett 1 >< tober 22, [886. 

William I. Bowditch. 

Bowditch, William [., one of the oldest residents 
of Brookline, son of Nathaniel B. and Man | Ingersoll) 
Bowditi h, was born in Salem, Mas,., August 1 5, 1819. 
He received his earh education at Chauncv Hall 
School, fitted for Harvard College and graduated in 
the (lass of [838. He then entered the office ol 
Charles P. and 11. R. Curtis after which he engaged 
in business for himself as a conveyancer and is active 
in business at the present time (1906.) Mr. Bow 
ditch ha, held many publii ofti.es in Brookline, 
servin" as a member of the Hoard of Selectmen in 



BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 



1876-77-78, Assessor, and Moderator for a number 
of years. 

Mr. Bowditch is a public-spirited man and is always 
willing tn help any project that would benefit the 
town 1 '1 Bn >< >l line. 

He was married September 23, 1843, l " Sarah R. 
Higginson. They have five children: James II., 
Ernest W., Frederic C, Susan II., wife of II. B. 
Loring, and Louisa II., who is the wife of Dean 
Pierce of Brookline. Mr. Bowditch resides at 125 
Tappan Street, Brookline. 




James B. Hand. 

Hand, James B., was born in St. John's, New- 
foundland, in 1832, and received a grammar school 
education in his native city, lit- became engaged in 
the paint business at an earh age, and devoted him- 
self sedulously to his trade. When he arrived at his 
majority, in 1853, he came to Brookline and worked 
for a few years at his trade oi painting and de< orating. 
Then seeing that there was a good opening here for 
such a business, he started in on his own account, 
founding the linn of Hand & Smith, locating in the 



old Mahoney House, lie steadily built up a large 
and prosperous business and later became the sole 
owner. 

Although a conservative man, and one who ai ted 
only after the most careful deliberation, Mr. Hand 
might be considered as the champion of the popular 
interests oi the town. He always favored a movement 
which would directly benefit the people and the busi- 
ness interests of Brookline, and no man's opinions 
were more strongly endorsed by the working and 
trades men than his. For main years lie was a 
member of tin- Committee of thirty citizens to whom 
were referred the articles in the warrant for the 
annual town meeting, ami he served most willingly 
and acceptably there. Mr. Hand did much to 
further the Hath House though he did not live to see 
his ideas brought to completion. He was a member 
of the Board of Selectmen continuously from [884 to 
1893 with the exception of one year, 1889. As a 
member of the Overseers of the Poor, he was of 
efficient service. When the Land League was started 
some twenty-five years ago in this country Mr. Hand 
became much interested, and agitated the question 
in brookline, with the result that a branch was estab- 
lished. 

In his official capacity Mr. Hand always enjoyed, 
to a very ;j;reat extent, the endorsement of citizens 
ai large, without regard to part)-, although he was a 
staunch Democrat in politics. He was mourned by 
a great number of our citizen--, ami his death, whi< h 
occurred Mayo, 1900, was a distinct loss to Brookline. 

His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
Murray, died some two years before his demise. He 
lett two sons and two daughters. The business was 
carried on by his 30ns until the death of W. A. Hand 
in [906, when duty of maintaining the high standard 
devolved upon Robert \\ . Hand, the surviving brother. 

Mr. R. \\ . Hand and his two sisters reside in 
Brookline. 

Martin Parry Kennard. 

Rennard, Martin Parry, of brookline, long 
identified with the business men of Boston, 
and for thirteen years sub-treasurer of the 
United States in that city, was a native of Ww 
Hampshire, whence the business, the professional, 
and the literarv forces of New England metropolis 
have been so often and so worthih recruited. Born 
at Portsmouth, X. II., on July 24, 1818, -on oi 
Oliver Parrv and fane Hoit (Plaisted) Kennard, 



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he received a Fair education in the schools <>t his 
native town, gained an elementary knowledge of 
business, and in 1836, with habits well formed, and 
a youth "I" firm moral principles and loft} ideals, 
he came to Boston and was employed as a clerk with 
Lows, Ball & Co., at 123 Washington Street, and as 
appears from the directory, with a home on Atkinson 
Street. In 1 s 4 7 . he was established in business as 
a member of the firm of Bigelow Brothers & Kennard, 
which later became Bigelow, Kennard iV Co., widely 
known as one "I" the leading mercantile houses in its 
line in New England. In [878 Mr. Kennard with- 
drew from this than, and retired permanently from 
business. Subsequently, for thirteen years Mr. 
Kennard served as sub treasurer "t tin- United States 
at Boston, having been first appointed bv President 
Hayes and re-appointed bv President Arthur and 
President Harrison, being retired at his own request 
in 1890, during President Cleveland's second term. 
In politics he w.i- a Republican, having been pre 
viouslv at first an old line Whig, then a free Soiler 
.iimI strong anti-slavery man. For main years he- 
was prominently connected with the Boston Men an 
tile Library Association. He was chairman of 
Group No. 11 of the judges at the Centenniel Exhi 
bition at Philadelphia in [876. lie was elected b\ 
the Boston bo, hi] of Trade as a member of the Rei i 
procit) Commission in 1878, Paris, [-"ranee, and was 
president of the Boston Commercial Club and the 
I li >-t< hi Menu a"ial A^m k iation. 

Ili married in [ulv, [846, Caroline Augusta, 
daughter of fames Wiggin and Eliza (Folsom) 
Smith, of Exeter, N. II. They had five children: 
Caroline Therese, Edward Parrv, Linda, Mary, and 
I'Ycdcrii Hedge. Therese, the eldest daughter, 
married Ilenrv Bucklv of Birmingham, England. 
She •lied in 1891, leaving four children. Edward 1'. 
Kennard lives in New York City, is married and has 
lour children. Linda Kennard is the wife of Alfred 
Winsor of Boston and Brookline. They have two 
sons and two daughters. Mary married Lemuel 
Hollingsworth Babcock of New York. They have 
two children, a son and a daughter. Frederick II. 
Kennard (Harvard College 'S8), landscape archi- 
tect of Boston, reside- in brookline. lie married 
Sarah Harrison Eisenbrey of Philadelphia, Pa., and 
the\ have one daughter. Mr. Kennard died in 1903. 




Frederick E. Atteaux. 

Atteaux, Frederick E., President of F. E. 

Atteaux & Co. (Incorporated) of I;, .-ton, is the 
son of Robert and Marion (Wiggett) Atteaux, and 
was born in Lenoxville, Province oi Quebec, Novem- 
ber 28, 1852. He wa- educated at Bishop College 
in Lenoxville, I'. Q., and at the age of seventeen 
\ears he came to Boston, connei ting himself with 
Jordan, Marsh & Co. He remained with this firm 
for seven years and then became a salesman for 
I). R. Whitney & Co. of Boston. This firm was 
engaged in the dye-stuff and chemical business. 
In [882 he be., une a partner of Beech & Co. in the 
same line. He continued with them till [887 when, 
this firm going out of business, he started in for him 
self as F. I\. Atteaux & Co., Dye Stuffs and Chem- 
icals. In Kjoo the company was incorporated with 
Mr. Atteaux as president. In volume of business, 
this concern is one of the most extensive in New 
England, and its products are used b) nearly all 
the mills in that set lion. 



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Mr. Atteau.N was married in 1885 to Caroline E. 
Willard oi Boston, tie is a member of several 
business organizations, the Elks, and the Masons, 
and i- one of the original members of the Boston 
Athletic Assoi iation. 

Mr. Atteaux has purchased recently the Eastman 
estate on Newton and Lagrange Streets, Brookline, 
w here he and his family will reside. 

Mr. Atteaux is noted, not only for his interest in 
the welfare <'! Boston and Brookline, but also for 
hi- private philanthropies. 




William L. Baker. 

Baker, William L., was born in Syracuse, X". Y.. 
August 13, 1875. He was a son of John Baker, 
first mayor of thai 1 it v. He was educated in the public 
schools of New York, the Universit) of New York, 
and the New York Law School, subsequently taking 
a post-graduate course at the Harvard Law School. 
He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in [897, and had 
up to the time ol his death been engaged in the prai - 
tise of his profession, with an office in Boston. His 



practice had grown enormously within the pasl five 
years and it < ailed him to all parts of the country. 

Mr. Baker was a Republican and had been iden- 
tified in state and local politics for some years, and 
was a member of the Republican state committee 
for several vears, besides being a member of the 
town committee. Mr. Baker was also a member of 
Beth horan Indue of Masons, being an officer at the 
time of his death. He was a 53d degree Mason, a 
Knight Templar and Shriner. He was one <>l the 
charter members of Brookline Lodge of Elks and for 
some time had the office of Esteemed Lecturing 
Knight. Mr. Baker, when his time permitted him 
to do so, was mui h interested in amateur theatric als. 
As a member of the Criterion club ol Bo-ton he 
frequently look part and was considered very 1 lexer. 
In June, igoo, he married Mi-- Fannie Craig, daugh 
ter of William Craig, chairman of the Board of 
Selec tmen. 

Mr. Baker was an exceedingh popular young man 
in town. His kind ami affable manner made foi 
him a host of friends ami he will be greatly misse I 

Mi". Baker died November 2, 1906, alter a short 
illness of typhoid fever. Hi- death came as a great 
surprise to all hi- friends and close acquaintances, 
as manv of them were not aware that he had been 
confined to his home by sickness. 

The funeral services were held at' the home oi Mr. 
Craig on Columbia Street, where Mr. Baker passed 
away. The large displa) ol flora] ottering- which 
comprised fort) piece-, showed in very high esteem 
how Mr. Baker was held in the professional, business 
and soc ial world. There were present a large number 
of his former friends ami business assoi iate- including 
delegations from Beth horan Lodge of Masons of 
which Mr. Baker was Senior Deacon, Brookline 
Lodge of L.Iks. Bo-ton Commandery Knights Tent 
plars, Knights of Pythias. The- pallbearers were 
officers from Beth horan Lodge. Rev. Oliver D. 
Sewall, assistant pa -tor at Harvard < hurch, offic iated. 
The body was taken to Forest Hill- cemetery where 
it w a- plai ed in a re. ei\ ing tomb. 



Henry Varnum Poor. 

I'ooi;. Henry Y\rmm. who was a resident of 
Brookline for a number 1 >l years, was born in Andover, 
Ma--., December 8, [812. Graduated from Bowdoin 
College. New York in 1835, and afterwards became 
a lawyer, wa- Manager of the "Railway Journal'' 



BROOKLIXE, M. 1 .v.V. I CHU SETTS 



in [848, ami for mam years editor of ''Poor'- Man- 
ual uf Railroads," published in New York by II- Y. 
and II. \V. Poor. In 1.S41 he was married to Marv 
\\ ., daughter of Rev. John Pierce of Brookline. 

He was a prolifii writer on political and economic 
topics, among his published works being a "His 
tory of the Railroads of the United Slate-," "The 
Monetary Systems of the World." 

Mr. Poor died in Brookline fanuan 4. 11)05. His 
widow, one son, Henn \\ Poor, a New York banker, 
and three daughters, Agnes \ . I.m\ T . and Mar) 
M. (Mr- Alfred I). ( 'handler), survived him. 




Robert Sharp Davis. 

The New England progenitor of the Davis family 
was William |ia\i-. who came from Wales in his 
earh youth and settled in Roxburv, where he was 
married three times, lie was a member of Apostle 
Eliot's church, as were his wives and most of his 
children. He died December <j. 1683. 

His grandson, Ebenezer Davis, made large pur- 
chases of lands in various places and settled upon 
the Brookline property, which he purchased in 1740 
of Thomas Cotton, of Windham, Connecticut. This 
estate of ninety five a< res was separately desi ribed in 



three l"ts, and embraced the principal portion of 
what is now the village of Brookline. 

A great-grandson of the Ebenezer Davis who settled 
in Brookline was named Robert Sharp Davis. This 
Robert Sharp had the following named children: 
Samuel Craft, Robert Sharp, (the subject of this 
sketch), Phineas Stearns. Sarah, and Lucy. 

Rob] kt Sharp Davis whose portrait accompanies 
this sketch, was born in Brookline, January 1, [811, 
and died in the same town February 23, 1 S 7 5 . He 
was a life long resident of Brookline. 

Robert Sharp Davis was named for several of his 
ancestors of the same name on the maternal side, 
who had distinguished themselves in the "id French 
and Indian Wars. He was the son of Robert Sharp 
and Lucy Stearns |).i\is. His maternal grandfather 
was Phineas Stearns of Watertown, Massachusetts, 
one «'f the famous Boston Tea Party, of Revolu- 
1 an memory. 

About the year 1825, Robert Sharp Davis, (the 
subject of this sketch) entered the employment of 
the well-known publishing firm of Crocker ami Brews 
ter. After remaining a few years with Crocker and 
Brewster of Boston, he became a partner in the 
firm of Lincoln, Edmands and Company, and in 
[835 succeeded them, and later formed the firm of 
Robert S. Davis and Company. 

He carried on the business of publishing school- 
books in Boston with uninterrupted success until his 
death a period of nearly forty years. Among his 
most prominent publications were the mathematical 
works of the eminent author, Benjamin Greenleaf, 
books which are believed to have been in more uni- 
versal use than any similar works ever published. 

In [837, Mr. Davis married Mary Harriet Shannon, 
of Portsmouth, X. II.. by whom he had the following 
1 hildren: Mary Shannon (Mrs. W. E. Webster), Lucy 
Stearns, Sarah Comstock, Laura Wood (Mrs. T. R. 
Shewelli, Caroline Elizabeth, and Langdon Shannon. 

The Davis family are descended in a maternal line 
from Robert Sharp, a youth of twenty, who came to 
Boston in the ship "Abigail," from London, in [635, 
and beyond that the family is traced to Robert Sharp 
of Islington, England, as far back as 1534. Robert 
Sharp, it would seem, lived for a while at Dorchester 
and then came to Brookline or Muddy River, and 
in [650 with Peter Aspinwall, he purchased the large 
trai t of laud, one hundred and fifty a< res. of William 
( oiburn, at Muddy River. 

By hi- wife Abigail, he had one son, John, born 
March 12, 1643, and two da lighters, Abigail and Mary . 



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John married Martha, daughter of Robert Vose, of 
Dorchester (Milton). John was a valiant soldier in 
King Philip's War. and was killed in the Sudbury 
fight, while lieutenant in Captain Wadsworth's com- 
pany, in April, 1676. Ill— widow married foseph 
Buckminster, from whom the distinguished persons 
of that name were descended. 

John Sharp had a son Robert, who perished in an 
expedition against the Indian- in Canada. This 
Robert had a -on Robert who was a thrifty man. and 
became a large landholder in Brookline. He died 
in 170^. leaving a -on, Robert, and four daughters. 
The fourth Robert married Sarah Payson of Roxbury, 
by whom he had ten < hildren, and from one of these 
children (Lucy), who married into the Davis family, 
wa- descended Robert Sharp Davis, the subject of 
this -ketch. 



father, and continued the business until 1883, when 
he disposed of hi- interest and the old firm of Robert 
3 Davis and Company ceased to exist. 

The same year he opened an office in Boston a= .1 
re.d e-tate broker and i- -till actively engaged in that 
line there. He ha- done much for the real e-tate 
development oi his native town, a- well a- having 
been connected with some of the large transactions 
in Boston. 

( it late years lie has become much interested in 
Xew York real e-tate and ha- bought and sold large 
properties in Greater Xew York. 

On November 9, 1880, he married llelene Bartlett 
O'Leary oi Boston. A -on wa- born to them on 
February 26, 1885, Langdon Shannon, who died in 
infancy. I.. Shannon Davis' residence i- on Sum- 
mer and Clinton Road-. Brookline. 




L. Shannon Davis. 

Davis, I.. Shannon, -on of Robert Sharp Davis 
and Man' Harriet (Shannon 1 Davis, wa- born in 
Brookline, January 28, [857. 

lie was edui ated in Brookline, and on the death of 
his father he immediately went into the publishing 
business, with the firm so long established bv his 




James Manning Seamans. 

Seamans, James Maxntxg, son of Manning and 

A hi' 'ail (Shepard) Seaman-, was born in Xew London. 
X. II. . August 18, [824. He received his education 
in the schools of Xew London, and at the Colby 
Academy in that town. Upon reaching hi- majorih 
Mr. Seamans came to brookline and made hi- first 



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business venture in this town, opening a grocery 
store under Lyceum II. ill. which was in the lower 
village. The date of this was Ma) 10. 1845. For 
several years he held the position of postmaster, the 
post-office being in his own store. 

Some years later the in< reusing trade made h 
necessarv to seek larger quarters and he moved to 
Harvard Square, ai the corner of Davis Avenue and 
Washington Street, occupying a building erected b) 
Seth T. Thayer, Esq. lie afterwards purchased 
this property with adjoining land, and in the w.ir 
t888 built the present brii k blo< k. 

For 57 years, and until he reached the age oi 7S, Mr. 
Seamans continued inactive control oi the business. 
In [902, feeling that his years of faithful endeavor 
had earned for him a rest, he retired, lea\ ing the man 
agement of the firm to his son, Manning Seaman-. 

Mr. Seamans was married to Mi-, Sarah Wood 
ard Stearns, a native of Brookline, in [S51. Mrs. 
Seamans died in 1005. 

( >f his 1 hildren the two sun iving, reside in Brookline. 

Mr. Seamans has always been held in high esteem, 
nut onh l>\ his neighbors and those having busines> 
relations with him, but by die 1 itizens "I Brookline. 

Sumner Hatherly Foster. 

l-'nsl IK. Si MM K 11 Mill l< I V I .aw \er and ( 'hail man 
nf Norfolk Count) Board of Commissioners, the 
elde-t son of 1 1 at herb and Emma Caroline (Bickford) 
Foster, was born in Boston, November 5, 1873. He 
i- descended in ninth generation from Edward Foster 
of Scituate, who came from England with his uncle, 
Timothy Hatherly, on the ship "Anne." landing al 
Plymouth in 1623 ami settling in Scituate in idjS. 

Edward Foster was a lawyer by profession and 
representative to the Genera] Court of die Plymouth 
Colony r(>3<") and 1O40. lie died in [643. 

Hatherh Foster, father of Sumner II Foster, was 
born in Hingham in 1 S44. and is one ol the firm ol 
Mai nllar Parker ( oiii|un\ . 

Sumner 11. Foster prepared lor college at the 
Brookline High Si hool and entered the Massai husetts 
Institute of Technology in [891. He graduated 
from die Law s.hool of Harvard University in 1895 
an. I was admitted to the bar of Massai husetts in the 
same year and has since practised law in Boston, 
being associated with Frank T. Benner and Laurence 
A. Ilrown under the firm name ol Benner & Foster, 
lie has taken an active interest in publii affairs, 
having served for several years on the Committee ol 
Thirty at tin 1 Brookline Vnnual Town Meetings ami 
on the Republican Town Committee oi Brooklinc 
and as chairman of thai committee in [905 [906. 



In loo) lie was elected one of the Count}' Com- 
missioners of Norfolk ('omit}" and in [906 he was 
elec ted i hairinan ol the 1 loard. 

1 le has been engaged in charitable and philanthropic 



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work and ha - served as an officer of the Set ond Chun h 
in Boston (Unitarian), the Benevolent Fraternity of 
Chun he- and Morgan Memorial. 

lie ha, three brothers, 1 lerbert Ira, John VVinthrop, 
and Hatherh, Jr. The}' have all attended Harvard 
University and have been prominent in athletics. 
The\ represented Harvard in Inter-collegiate con 
lests in baseball, trai k, hoc ke\ and football, I latherly 
Foster, |r., being the captain of the Harvard Football 
Eleven 1906. 

Sumner Hatherly Foster has been prominenth 
identified with yacht racing in Massachusetts Ba\ 
aii.l ha- served a- an officer in several ol the yacht 
, Ink- i" w hi' h he belongs. He i- Vice President oi 
the Vac hi Racing Association of Massachusetts. 

Albert Lamb Lincoln. 

Lincoln, Albert I, win, Atlorne) al Law, was 
born in I'.oston April jo, 1X50, graduate of Harvard 
College, Secretary .,1" the Class of 1X72, resident of 
Brookline since 1 S56, Selectman [886-1893, Chair- 
man of the Hoard 1888 [893, one of the Auditors of 
the town 1878 '70 'No. Park Commissioner since 1901. 



BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 




Rev. Daniel Dulaney Addison, D. D. 

\ 7 ,dison, Ri v. Daxij i I»i i \\i v, 1'- D., author 
and clergyman, was born in Wheeling, W \a., 
March n. 1863. The original Addison in this 
country and ancestor of Dr. Mdison was an uncle 
of Joseph Addison, the great English essayist and 
poet. Another am estor was a signer of the 1 >ei lara 
turn of Independence. The parents of Dr. Addison 
tt -ere Thomas Grafton and Marie Eliason (Addison) 

Addison. 

He i- a graduate of Union College (iSS;). and of 
the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. 
He received the degree of D. T). from Union College 
j n ,,, i. He was assistant at Christ Church, Spring- 
field, Mass., from [886 to rSSo, rector of St. Peter's 
Church, Beverly, Mass . from 18S9 to [895, and 
rei tor of All Saints Chun h, Brookline, since [895 
He was president of the Beverlj Hospital from 1892 
to 1895, and is at present a trustee of the Brookline 
Publii Library, examining chaplain to the Bishop ol 
Massachusetts, president of the N". E. Home for 
Deaf Mute., a trustee of the College of Monrovia, 
Liberia, president of the Brookline Educational 



Society, a director of The Church Temperance 
Society, a member of the executive committee, An h- 
deaconn of Boston, Boston Clerieus, and eice-presi- 
denl of trustees of Donation for Education in Liberia. 
He was knighted by the Government of Liberia in 
1904. He is a member of the Authors' Club and 
TwenH Round Table. 

He i- the author of "Luc\ Larcom, Life, Letters 
and Hiary." "Philips Brooks," "Life and Times of 
Edward Bass, First Bishop of Massachusetts," 
"All Saints' Church, Brookline," "The Clergy in 
America," and "The Episi opalia." 

He was married to Miss Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 
February :o. [889. Mrs. Addison is an authoress, 
art designer of ecclesiastical ornament, metal work, 
mosaii and embroideries. She is a dire, tor of the 
Brookline School Museum and a member of the 
Boston Art Students' Association (now The Copley 
Soi ietv). 




Rev. Leonard Kip Storrs, D. I). 

Storrs, Ri v. Leonard Kip, D. D . rector of St. 
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Brookline, was 
|„, ni in Vonkers, N. V.. November 4, ' s 4-- His 
parents were Henry L. and Elizabeth (Kip) Storrs_ 



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His father, who was also a clergyman, died in Yonkers, 
in [852. I >r. Storrs was educated at Trinity College 
of Hartford, Conn., from which he graduated in 
1863, and at the Theological Seminary, Hartford, 
from which he graduated in 1869. After leaving 
the latter he located in Portland, Me., an.l afterwards 
in Pittsfield, Mass. 

[n [875 he came to Brookline. He is a member of 
the School Board, Trustee of Walnut Hill- Cemetery 
and Trustee of the Public Library. His first wife 
died some years ago, and lit- recently married Mrs. 
Adeline F. Adam-, daughter of the late George Frost 
of Newton. Dr. St. in-, has been rector of St. Paul's 
for thirty-one years, and i- much beloved by his 
parishioners and mam outside his particular fold. 




Joseph P. Murphy, M.D. 

Mi rphy, Joseph P., M. 1), son of James and 
Catherine (McCarthur) Murphy, was born in Boston, 
February 2d, 1865. He received his early education 
in private schools "I Boston and entered Boston 
College in 1876, graduating in the eighties. He 
chose the career of a physician for his life work and 
prepared himself for his profession at Harvard Medi- 



cal School, from which he graduated in 1886, taking 
his degree the same year. Besides these courses, 
he had bene lit ted by studies in women'- and children's 
diseases in the Massachusetts General Hospital and 
Boston City Hospital. In 1894 he went abroad and 
studied at the Pavillion Trousseau in Paris and at 
the Maternity Rotunda in Dublin. 

I >r. Murph\ began the practice of his profession 
in brookline in [886, locating first in the house where 
The Brookline Press some year- later took up its 
quarters. He was married September 29, [897, to 
Winifred Richards, daughter of Orrin C. Richards, 
one of Boston's prominent artists. He has been a 
member of the Massachusetts Medical Society since 
1 886 and was Vice President of the Brookline Medic al 
Club in nioy Dr. Murphy resides at 37 Harvard 
Street, Brookline. 




Oscar B. Mowry. 

MOWRY, Osi \K li., member of brookline Watei 
Board, i- the son of Warren B. and Hannah A. 
(Brownell) Mowry, and was born in Woonsocket, 
R. I., where he spent hi- early life. He was graduated 
from the Woonsocket High School in 1859, graduated 



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from Brown University, A. B.. 1863, received the degree 
of A. M. in course in r866. He entered Harvard 
Law School, took the degree of I.I.. B. in 1865, 
studied law for a year with C. T. & T. II. Russell, 
and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar March 17. 1866. 

He has devoted himself to a constantly increasing 
general civil law business which has grown in later 
years largely in the line of probate and trust matter-. 
lie i- a trustee of several estates. Mr. Mowry has 
resided in Brookline since [880, and has been very 
active and influential in local affairs. 

He has been a member of the Brookline Water 
Board for several years, is a member of the River- 
dale Ca-inn and the Boston Bar Association. 

He was married in 1X70 to Georgianna J., daughter 
of ( ieorge C. ( ioodwin. 

Mr. Mowry is a man of broad intellectual power 
and of excellent judgment and a mosl powerful man 
i'mi- the Brookline Water Board. 




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John F. Fleming. 

Fleming, John I-'., a successful business man and 
well-known resident of Brookline, was born in 
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. England. 

He attended the old Ward School, and graduated 
from the Pierce Grammar School. He entered the 



employ of the old house of Seth \V. fuller, Electrical 
Contrai tor. in 1886, ami made a spe< ialty of ele< trie a] 
installation as applied to residences. 

By dint of hard work in this field, augmented bv 
courses at night schools in Brookline and evening 
experimental courses and lectures at the Massachu 
setts Institute of Technology, he equipped himself 
to begin an independent business career In [891, 
opening an office in Brookline in a very modes) way. 

Hi- efforts were crowned with such success, that 
he possesses to-dav, what i- undoubtedly, the most 
valuable electrical business of it- kind, in Xev. 
England. 

Mr. Fleming now operate- three line- of business, 
having added in recent years, installation of gas 
work and automobile storage ami repair-. 

Hi- line. new. fireproof business building at the 
village entrain e of the town, in which he i- located, 
bid- fair to be only the starting point of more impor 
taut sui cesses. 

Mr. Fleming ha- for several years tilled the office 
of Sei retarv and Treasurer of the Brookline Business 
Men'- Association, i- unmarried, and live- with his 
mother and sisters on Pond Avenue, Brookline. Ma--. 



Frederick L. Briggs. 

Briggs, Frederick I,., -on of John Hammond 
ami Marv Elizabeth Briggs, was Born in Weymouth, 
Ma--.. March 12, 1860. He comes of sturdy New 
England stock and i- proud of being a -elf made 
man, having worked up from an office Boy in a real 
estate concern and employee in a drug -tore to the 
proprietor-hip of a successful business. 

In 1005 he wa- appointed by Governor Douglas 
to the position of Secretary of the Board of Regis- 
tration in embalming treated by law in 1905. 

Mi-. Briggs is one of die best known men in In- 
line of business in Massachusetts. He was a pioneer 
in the modern method- of embalming and is con- 
sidered peculiarly qualified for the Board of Regis 
tration bv his experience of thirty years and his 
acknowledged expertness. 

He began hi- business career with Jeremiah Tink- 
ham, who wa- one of the leading undertaker- in the 

countrv in hi- day, at 20 Howard Street, Bosl 

where Mr. Briggs to-day has his headquarter-. Six 
year- ago when Mr. Tinkham retired Mr. Briggs 
SUi 1 eeded him a- proprietor, lie immediately estab 
li-hed the Coolidge Corner branch of hi- business. 



BRl H )KLINE, MASSAl 'HUSETTS 




He is a prominent member of Jo.se] ill Warren Lodge 
of Free Masons, St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, 
Boston Council, Boston Commandery Knight Tem 
plai i ml of the National I.. 



Frederick Pern Fish. 

Fish, Fri di rii k Pi rr\ . President of the Amerii an 
Hell Telephone ( 'ompam , and .1 well-known lawver, 
was horn in Taunton, Mass., January 1 ;, 1855; he 
is the m>u of Frederick I., and Mary farvis (Perry) 
Fish. He graduated from Harvard University in 
1875, and attended Harvard Law School 1N75 6. 
He was married April 7, tS8o, to Clara P. Livermore. 
He practised law in New York and Boston until 
July, it ■ 1 That year he ai 1 epted the position of 
President of the American Bell Telephone Companv 
h hii li he now i 1906) holds He 1- direi lor of mam 
and president of several allied companies He is 
an associate member of American Institute of F.lec- 
trical Fngineers;a member of the Union, St. Botolph 
University, Exchange Clubs of Boston, and of the 
University, Union, American Art, Lawyers "I" New 
York. Mr. Fish resides on Prescotl Street, Brookline. 



F. Joseph Untersee. 

l'\ 1 1 RSI 1 , F. Josi i'ii. the an hitei 1 1 >1 the Bn >ok 
line Manual Training School, Bath House and Gvm 
nasium, was born in Glarus, Switzerland, November 
25, 185K. Ilis parens were F. [oseph and Louise 
(von Riedi) L T ntersee, Mr. Untersee received his 
early education in public and private schools. 1 1 i- 
professional training was attained in the Polvtech 
nikum, Stuttgart, Germany. He married the daugh- 
ter of the late Philip I). Hammond of Indianapolis, 
Indiana, 




He has been the architect of the Manual Training 
School, the Gymnasium, and the Bath House of 
Brookline, churches in Albion, Brookline, and in 
[amestown, \ Y ; Parochial School in Brookline, 
Redemptorisl Buildings in Roxbury, and others in 
New Yi irk. He resides on the corner of Davis Avenue 
and Keiffer Ko.nl, Brookline 

John L. Gardner. 

Gardnkk, foHN 1... who was one of Brookline 's 
most publii spirited citizens, was horn in Boston, 
November 20, 1837. lie was the sun of one ol Bo 
toll's old-time merchant princes, fohn Lowell Gard 
ner. lib mother was a member of the Peabod\ 



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families of Salem. Mr. Gardner filled many impor- 
tant positions during his life. He was chairman of 
the Hoard of Directors of the Chicago, Burlington 
.mil < ,> 1 1 i i n \ Railroad Company; a director of the 
Calumet and Hecla Mining Compam and <>l several 
other corporations; Trustee of the Suffolk Savings 
Bank, one of the Trustees and Treasurer oi the 
Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, and Tru tee and a! 
one time Recording Secretary of the Humane Society 
of Massachusetts. He was also a member of the 
leading club-. Ik- wa- married April to. i86o, to 
Mi— Isabella Stewart of New York. 

He dieil 1 let ember I o. 1N7.X. leaving a widow but 
no children; other survivors are his brother, George 
A. Gardner, and a married sister, Mrs. J. Randolph 
Coolidge. Mr. Gardner was always interested in 
the advancement of Brookline, and in 1.S71 he donated 
Sic, 000 to the Brookline Library. 




Burton W. Neal. 

\i \i, Bl'RTON \\ ., well known builder and ion 
tr.utor, was bom in brookline. November 14, 1866, 
the -on of Burton \V. Neal. who came to this town 
from New Hampshire in [853. He was educated in 
the public schools of brookline and later attend.. I 

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 
that time he ha- been active]} engaged in the building 
business, succeeding his father in [891, and ha- built 
many fine residences and public buildings in the 
(own and -tate. He served in the Brookline Fire 



Department for twenn three years, five years oi 
which he was on the Board of Engineers, and lor -i.x 
years he served as Fire Commissioner. He -cawed on 
the board of Investment of the brookline Savings 
Bank for four years. Mr. Neal was married to Miss 
Ida ( 'anipliell. The\ have three < hildren. 




Charles Wesley Birtwell. 

Bir nun. 1 t-TARLE? Wesley, was born in Law - 
rence, Mass,, November 23, r86o. Hi- father was 
Tempest Birtwell, born in Sabden, and his mother, 
Sarah Pickels, born in Colne, Lancashire, England. 

from the Lawrence High School, class of 1S78, 
Mr. Birtwell entered Harvard College, class of 1SN2. 
In his senior year illness interrupted his course, so 
that he was graduated w iih the 1 lass of 1SS5, re. eiving 
a degree of " summa c urn laude." 

I (eliberately 1 noosing philanthropic work when sue h 
a choice was less common among university men 
than now. Mr. Birtwell went directly from Harvard 
into the service of the bo-ton Children's Aid Society, 
of which, since September 1, 1NX5, he ha- been the 
exei titive . iffii er. 

Mr. birtwell was married October [6 1894, to 
Mi-- Helen Dow, Hampton ball-, X. lb. ai the home 



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of the bride, the Governor Weare house, built in 1737, 
now the summer home of the family. The first 
year after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Birtwell 
lived in the Charles Sumner house, 20 Hancock St., 
Boston, and in October, 1895, m oved to Brookline. 
rheir son Roger was born May 10, 1001, in the house 
at the corner of Drure Street and Dean Road, built 
for Mr. Birtwell in 1809. Tms fall Mr. Birtwell 
changes hi- residence to a house now building for 
him on Buckminster Road, corner of Seaver Street. 

In [S91, Mr. Birtwell visited England and France 
for the -tml\ ol charities and industrial education. 
He is one of the lecturers of the Xew York School of 
Philanthropy, conducted In the Charit\ Organization 
S01 iety of the City of New York, and of the Si hot)! for 
So, ial Workers, Boston, maintained by Simmons 
( 'ollege and Harvard University. 

In r.Sqd 07 Mr. Birtwell was a member of the 
Advisorv Board on Public Institutions of the Citv 
of Bo-ton. appointed b\ the Mayor. He has served 
upon the boards of directors of the Massachusetts 
Prison Association, the New England Watch and 
Ward Society, the South laid House, the North End 
I'nion, and other local charitable and educational 
organizations and 1 ommittees. 

He was one of the two editors ol "The ('are of 
Dependent, Neglei ted, and Wayward Children, being 
a Report of die Second Section of the International 
Congress of Charities, Correction ami Philanthropy, 
Chicago, [une 1S93 Baltimore, The fohns Hopkins 
Press. London, the Scientifii Press, 1894; " and was 
one of the two authors of a "Reporl of the Male 
Board of Education " by spei ial order of the Legisla- 
ture of Massachusetts, "relative to School Attendam e 
and Truancy. House Document No. 1259, Mav, 
1 So 7." He w a- an assoi iate editor of the "Charities 
Review" from [S97 to kjoo. 

Mr. Birtwell was president of the " Monda) Even- 
ing ( 'lull," a 1 lull of pa ill officers of the charities of 
Boston and vicinity, November, 1893, to November, 
1895. The iluli was organized at Mr. Birtwell's 
suggestion in March, iSSS, ami he was it- first secre- 
tary It- usefulness has prompted the organization 
of a similar club in each of the larger cities of the 
1 nun try. Mr. Birtwell was president of the Charming 
Club of Boston, Oi lolier. [Sg6, to Oi tober, 1897; and 
has been secretary of the Unitarian Club of Boston 
oni e [anuan , 1899. 

Mr. Birtwell originated the Home Libraries, -0 
called, in 1887 in connection with his work for the 
Bo-ion ( 'hildren's Aid So< ietv. 

I rom its organization in 1894, Mr. Birtwell ha- been 



connected with what i- now tailed the "Social Ser- 
vice Committee" of Harvard University, formed for 
the purpose of guiding and stimulating student vol- 
unteer 1 harity w ork. 

Under the will of Miss Belinda Randall, of Boston, 
Mr. Birtwell served as a member, and by election 
of In- colleagues served a- clerk of the Randall 
Board of Managers, to which fell the assignment to 
-mil educational and philanthropii purposes a- the 
managers should determine of the sum of S;Sj,ooo. 

The burden of Mr. Birtwell's work has been the 
development of the activities of the Boston Children's 
Aid Soiieli Erom it men and Women have been 
graduated i" positions of responsibiIit\ at the head 
ol various other charitable undertakings in different 
parts of the country. Mr. Birtwell has given much 
attention to legislation in regard to i hildren, espei ialh 
in 1 he development of the law- in rega ril to o impulsory 
education and truancy, child labor, juvenile courts, 
and related sul ijei ts. 

Mr. Birtwell wa- interested in the opening of our 
publii libran on Sumla\s, and in securing the up 
proval li\ the town of the building of the publii 
gymnasium He i- chairman of the lecture com 
mi t tee of the Brookline Education Societv. 




Jacob W. Wilbur 

W'li.iu 1:, .1 m "i: W., a resident of Brookline for 
a number of years, was Born in New Gloucester 
Maine. March '_', Isl7. where he received his edu- 
cation. When he arrived in Boston he decided to 
enter the real estate business and as a result he 
has greatly improved and developed suburban 
hind Mr. Wilbur resides in a beautiful residence 
on Wlnthrop Road. 



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BROOKLINE STREET DEPARTMENT. 



In the preceding pages of the History all the Town Departments are referred to. 



Few things add more to the appearance of a Brookline were constructed and maintained al- 
tnwii than well constructed and well maintained most entirely of ordinary pit gravel. In that 
streets and sidewalks, and Brookline owes much year a stone crusher was bought, and since then 
of its attractiveness and its desirability as a place the repairs have been largely made of crushed 
of residence to the fact thai it has for many years stone, and for some time past have been made 
kepi its streets and sidewalks in such a manner as and repaired with this material only. It is 
in promote the comfort and convenience of its generally conceded that for streets of heavy 
citizens, and to elicit unqualified praise from traffic, granite blocks when well cut and well 
visitors. laid, form a must substantial and durable pave- 
Previous to the year 1S71 \\ i >rk on the streets ment, which in the course of years is undoubtedly 
was dune under the immediate supervision of the the must economical, but on account of the noise 
selectmen, acting as surveyors of highways. In they are desirable only in streets of the heaviest 
that year a highway department was organized traffic, and while the roads of Brookline, are by 
and a superintendent of street- was appointed reason nf its geographical location, subjected to 
lor the first time. Chapter 98, of the Public an enormous amount Mfthi-kinilnrtratiir.it has 
Statute- nl' 1SS9, made it obligatory mi towns to not been deemed advisable t < > use this kind of 
appoint a superintendent of streets, but as Brook- pavement. 

line already had such an official, i he effect mi t his Brick pavements, while not as durable as those 
town was merely to shift certain statute respon- of granite, are largely used in western town- and 
sibilities. cities, and of late years have been used to a con- 
The town is divided into live highway districts, siderable extent in t his vicinity, and bv reason of 
each being under the charge of one member of the their smoothness, and the ease bv which t hex- 
board of selectmen. The engineering work is en- can be kept cleaned are deservedly popular. The 
tirely separate and distinct from the street de- Village square al the transfer station and Harvard 
part ment, and the engineer and superintendent of square and Washington street as far as t he rail- 
streets are both appointed annually by t he -elect - road bridge are paved with bricks, ami the pave- 
ineii. and are responsible directly to them. The ment seems to give very general satisfaction, 
selectmen keep in close touch with the si reel de- \.sphalt is noiseless and comparatively dustless, 
partment, and are at all limes familiar with its and in some respect is almost an ideal pavement, 
work, and are consulted when anything more than particularly lor residential sections, but its ?ur 
the ordinal - } routine is contemplated. The de- face is exceptionally slippery, and repairs are very 
partment is well equipped with -team roller-. costly. It is, however, extremely desirable for 
stone crushers, horses , carts, tools etc., and its crowded tenement districts, owing to the tad 
permanent force consists of as many men as can that 11 can be easily flushed during the hoi sum- 
be constantly employed. During t he busy season mer days and nights, thus reducing t he tempera - 

as many additional men and teams are employed ture and proving a 1 n to the dweller- in these 

as may be deemed advisable. congested districts. Wood block- of suitable 

The question of whal material should be used material when properly treated with a preserva- 

m surfacing t he streets has occupied t he attention tive constitute almost the ideal pavement. They 

of I he department and t he board of selectmen for are smooth, easily cleaned or flushed, and alt hough 

a considerable time. Until InTCi the streets of expensive in their first cosl are very durable. 

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The onlv objection, aside I ruin the cost . to the use 
of 1 1 1 1 r~ pavement is its slipperiness, which ran be 
overcome b\ sprinkling liberally with sand. A 
-i i i;i 1 1 sample of this pavemcnl is laid on the Sum- 
ner road bridge. A new pavement known as 
I >i nil it I or is made of broken stone and bituminous 
cemenl laid hoi on a foundation of crushed stone, 
and thoroughly compacted by rolling while still 
hot. li combines the best features of asphall and 
macadam, and is free from most oi the objections 
in the use of either; it is used very largely in all 
parts of the country, and will doubtless be used 
more and more as its merits are mure widely 
known. There arc three pieces of this pavement 
in Brookline, one on the souther!} approach to 
the railroad bridge on Washington street on a 
somewhat heav\ grade, a second piece on Kent 
street near Harvard square, and a third mi Har- 
vard street, between Harvard square and Aspin- 
wall avenue; it seems in give general satisfaction, 
and public opinion is favorable to a more extended 
use ''I ii. Macadam seems on the whole the 
most suitable pavement for suburban roads, and 
i- the iiinM popular for road driving. The great - 
i-M object ions to its use are the dust and the mud, 
which seem to be almost inseparable from it, bul 
when the surface is kept in proper condition, and 
properlv sprinkled in dry weather, and I he mud 
removed, it gives great satisfaction by reason oi 
its low cost, its freedom from noise, and the sure 
foot hold it affords for horses. With the exception 
of the few short pieces of improved pavement 
already mentioned, macadam is wlmlh used both 
in construction and repairs on the streets ot 
Brookline. In streets of ordinary width, where 
street railwa\ tracks are laid, macadam is unfit on 
account of it- rapid wear by reason oi the travel 
being concentrated on very narrow portions oi 
the road on either side of the railway tracks, and 
without doubt Brookline will adopt a hotter and 
more durable pavemenl for such streets in the 
very near future, h has been amply demon- 
strated by the experience of many years that the 
hea\\ telford foundation is unnecessary except in 
clave) -nil-, and particularly where the under- 
drainage is not good. <>u well drained founda- 
tions it is found that about eight inches of crushed 
-lone, put on in two layers and properly shaped, 
and rolled down to about six inches in depth 
answer* every purpose. In repairs and recon- 
structions of old roads which have become well 



compacted and thoroughly solid by years oi use, 
even four inches of macadam are sufficient. \" 
hard and fasl rule is adhered to, but the method 
of construction and repair.- is adopted which will 
suit the particular place. 

I'mil about twenty-five years ago gravel of 
fairly good quality could be had in almost every 
pari of Brookline, but no permanent supply is 
now available, and the department for some 
time past has had to depend upon such material 
as is found in various excavations for building 
and other purposes throughout the town. The 
stone used for macadam surfacing until recently 
was obtained from the conglomerate ledges in 
Brighton, but this -tone is of very poor quality, 
and the best results could nol therefore be ob- 
tained In 1902 a lot of land adjoining the park 
lands mi Hammond street, containing about 
seven a ere- on which there is a very la rue amounl 
of trap rock, was purchased and repair- are now 
made almost entirely of this material, which 
* i in- to give general satisfaction. The supply 
nf gravel being so precarious it was eviilent thai 
the railroad would have to lie depended upon for 
a sure supplv. In 1903 a lot of land on Kent 
-i reel adjoining the railroad, was bought, and a 
spur track lias been laid by mean.- oi which not 
onlv gravel can be delivered, bui broken stone, 
cement, sand, bricks and other things needed in 
the work of the department. This lot of land also 
serves a very useful purpose as a storage lot. In 
cleaning the streets about twenty-five men are 
employed who spend their whole time in this 
work. The town is divided into sections, and 
each man is held responsible for the condition oi 
his own particular section. In addition a street 
cleaning gang, composed of the older men w ho are 
physically unable in do the heavy work of the de- 
partment, is -en I periodically over all I he -t reel - 
of the town, including those which are covered by 
the ectional method. Litter barrel- for the re- 
ception of paper and other refuse are placed in 
convenient parts of the town, and very general 

Use i- made i il t hem. 

Speeial effort is made during the winter months 
to promote the safety and convenience oi the 
citizens. There is no by-law or ordinance re- 
quiring abutters to clear the snow from the side- 
walks in front of their premises. As soon as the 
--now has ceased falling, plows are sent out to 
cover the whole town. Thov are followed by 1*2 



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y 1 l gangs of shovellers, and the work of remov- unimproved lots, anil in i he more remote parts of 

ing snow from the sidewalks is carried on simul- the town plank walks arc laid, so that excepting 

taneouslyin as many sections of the town. When in few instances it is possible for any citizen to go 

ice has formed, sand i- freeh used to prevent from his home to the steam or electric cars, to the 

accident. The cost of this kind of work is ven schools, churches or places of business, on a s 1 

considerable, and in some years makes a heavy comfortable sidewalk. Edgestones, brick, con- 
drain on the resources of the department, bul the crete and plank walks are paid for entirely by the 
expenditure is very popular, and there i- no indi- town, and an allowance is made towards the cost 
cation of a desire for a change in methods. Trees of granolithic sidewalk-. The sewers and drains 
which add so much to the beauty of any town are with their appurtenances are for the most part 
planted on most of the streets; maples, elms and built by contract under the supervision and in- 
oak predominate. Cntil recently the planting spection of the engineering department. When 
and care of trees was in charge of the highway completed their care is vested in the streel de- 
department, but they are nnw entirely in charge partment, which keeps them cleaned and repaired, 
of the tree planting committee, composed of and in good working condition. The northerh 
t hree cil izens elected at the annual town meeting. and easterly part of the town is drained on what 
This committee exercises a constanl supervision is called the combined system, in which both house 
over the trees, and it is largely due to their intelli- sewage and storm water are accommodated in the 
genl and well directed efforts, that the town has same channel, while in the southerly and westerly 
been -pared t he havoc wrought in many place-, by parts of the town, the separati -> stem prevails, 
the gypsy and brown tail moth.-, and other pests. In the separate system the -ewer- are intended 
Lighting the streets both by electricity and gas is only for house drainage, while the storm water 
done b\ contract under the supervision of the and water from the roofs of houses is carried in 
superintendent of wires and lights, who i- ap- separate channel- to the nearest water course, 
pointed annually by the board of -elect men. In the very near future it is expected that the 
Practically all the streets of the town are watered Metropolitan high level -ewer will be extended 
during six months, from May 1 to November 1. across the town, and that all the storm and roof 
and before and after that time the more important water will be excluded from the -ewer-. This 
thoroughfares are sprinkled. Twenty-seven mean- a duplication of drains in almost the en- 
double teams are employed in this work which are tire northerly and easterly section of the town, 
hired from contractors who supply all the horses, With about fifty-six miles of sewers, and very 
cart- and harnesses, and are paid monthly for numerous surface water drains, the amount apro- 
1 1" ir work, which includes sprinkling on Sundays priated for their care and maintenance annually 
ami holidays. Water i- furnished by the town i- only S5000, and of this amount there i- fre- 
through stand-pipes conveniently located, and no quently an unexpended balance. The sewer 
charge is made to the department therefor. The system is well adapted to the need- of the town, 
care of sidewalks involves constant watchfulness and very few complaints of obstructed sewers, 
and attention: defects are reported by the police, catch-basins or drain- are received. The collec- 
ainl repair- arc immediately made, and in tin- tion of ashes and refuse is an important part of the 
way the town is doubtless saved from many vexa- work of the street department. The garbage is 
tion- ami expensive suits for damages. In the collected by contract under the direction of the 
more thickly settled parts of the town the walks board of health, 'flic ashes ami other rubbish 
which are cliiefiy of coal tar, concrete or brick are collected by the street department weekly. 
are laid with edgestones, while 111 other place- a Householders are required to have three recepta- 
grass border varying from three to five feet in cles. one of which is for the garbage, a second for 
width in which tree- are planted, i- largely Used. the a.-he- and non-combustable refuse, and the 
Granolithic walks, made of cement and finely third for paper and ether combustible material, 
crushed stone with a cinder foundation, are laid in Although the dumping places in the town are 
man\' places, and their use is rapidly extending. rapidly diminishing in number, no great difficulty 
They are laid under contract by approved parties ha- yet been experienced in finding a sufficient 
only, under a five year guarantee. In front of number of convenient place- where clean ashes 

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can be deposited. The paper and other combus- 
tible refuse, however, is not so easily disposed of 
and cannot be dumped in open lots without be- 
coming an intolerable nuisance. It it is burned 
thr smoke is very objectionable, and il it i- not 
burned it is blown about the neighborhood and 
even to places winch an- quite remote from where 
it is dumped. For the present this rubbish is de- 
livered to a dealer in paper stock, who finds it 
profitable to separate only that portion which has 
any considerable commercial value. So much, 
how ever, of the total collect ion is of little or of no 
value that it is almost as great a problem to dis- 
pose of this economically and without offence to 
the neighborhood, as it is to ilisjio>e of the entire 
amount collected. It is beyond doubt that suita- 
ble furances for the destruction of this material 



must be soon provided, and where they shall be 
located i- a question which is now. and has Keen 
for some time occupying the attention of t he hoard 
of health. 'The sanitary disposal of municipal 
waste of all kinds is a question which is receiving 
attention all over the country, and it is earnesth 
hoped that Brookline will soon succeed in solving 
the problem for itself in a satisfactory manner. 

The street department is in charge of Mr. 
Michael Driscoll, who is officially designated as 
superintendent of streets and sewers: he was firsl 
appointed on April 111, 1N7<>. and litis held the 
office ever since. Associated with him as assis- 
tant superintendent is .Mr. Fred B. Richardson, 
who was appointed in 1S94. The clerk of the de- 
partment is Mr. Daniel G. Lacy. 



THE BOSTON CONSOLIDATED GAS LIGHT COMPANY. 



i in June 1"), 1905, under the able management 
of James L. Richards, President of the Boston 
Consolidated < ias Company, all the other gas com- 
panies in Boston, excepting the East Boston and 
Charlestown companies, were merged. 

The business culminating in this consolidation 
originated in the early part of last century. After 
about a decade of experimentation in private 
plants, Westminster Bridge in London was first 
lighted with gas on December 31, LSI 3. making 
the advent of gas as an illuminanl in tin' field of 
public lighting. Within ten years thereafter, the 
Boston Gas Company was incorporated, and it is 
interesting to note this comparatively briei lapse 
of time as an indication of the enterprising spirit 
existing in Boston then as now. This company 
furnished coal gas, as did till the gas companies in 
the early days of the industry. Its incorporation 
was followed by that of the follow ing coal gas com- 
panies, each supplying its respective geographical 
territories. The South Boston (ias Light Com- 
pany, in 1S52; Roxbury Gas Light Company, in 
1852; Brookline Gas Light Company, in IS53; 
Jamaica Plain Gas Light Company, in 1S53; and 
the 1 (orchester Gas Light Company. 1S5 1. These 
companies operated as isolated gas companies, 
making coal t_ r as. until 1SS4, when the Bay State 
Gas Company was incorporated by J. Edward 
Addicks of Delaware, who in the next few years 
bought the Boston, South Boston, Roxbury, and 
Dorchester <ias Light Companies from the Green- 



ough and othetMild Boston families, who had been 
interested in them since their inception. 

About 1S92 the Brookline Gas Light Company 
entered the Boston field under the management of 
II. II. Rogers, and duplicated a large part of the 
mains of the Boston and Roxbury Gas Light Com- 
panies. The price of gas was reduced to SI (HI 
and a fierce gas war ensued, ending in the Boston- 
Brookline contract of May, 1896. 

In 1902, Messrs. Kidder. Peabody & Company, 
who had organized the Boston Elevated Railway, 
became interested in the Boston gas field, and or- 
ganized the Massachusetts Gas Companies, a 
stock-holding trust association, to clear up and 
consolidate the man}' conflicting interests which 
had arisen. After nearly three years .--pent in 
clearing away the many obstacles in their path, 
they effected the consolidation of the incorporated 
gas companies above enumerated, merging them 
in the Boston Consolidated Cas Company. This 
was an epoch-making event, as it denoted that a 
period of about twenty years of speculation and 
cross purposes was closed, and that the ownership 
of the Boston uas business, amounting to about 
$25,000,000 fixed assets, had returned in unified 
form to Boston investors and under Boston man- 
agement. 

Upon this consolidation, the price of gas was 
voluntarily reduced to 95 cent.-, and in .Inly. 1906, 
a further reduction to 85 cents was made as a re- 
sult of the economies effected by the consolidation. 



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P,R( H 7KLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 

BROOKLINE WATER DEPARTMENT. 



1,1 / FdHBE 



The question of a public water supply for the obtained from the city of Boston, and, should 
town of Brookline was one which received little this means fail, to apply to the General Court 
or no attention for more than 150 years after the for an acl authorizing the town to supply itself 
town's incorporation. The first mention of with water from Charles River. This report was 
obtaining water for public use was made at the accepted by the town and the selectmen, in con- 
annual town meeting, held March 20, 1865, at junction with the Committee on Water Supply, 
which time the Representative to the General were instructed to proceed in accordance with 
Court was instructed to " use his utmost endeavors the recommendations of the committee. It is 
to have inserted in the "Bill to authorize the city evidenl that the city of Boston was unwilling to 
of Boston to build an additional reservoir," now- co-operate with Brookline at this time, as an act 
before the House of Representatives, a provision authorizing the town to take water from Charles 
that the city may distribute the water of Lake River was secured, and accepted by the town at 
Cochituate through the said town of Brookline, a special meeting held May 7, 1872. 
and .-hall make and establish hydrants therein " At this meeting a vote was passed instructing 
etc. This effort to secure a water supply from the Selectmen and Committee on Water Supply 
the city of Boston, was, like a number of similar to confer with the authorities of Boston ami 
attempts, made in after years, unsuccessful. adjoining town- regarding the possibility of 

At a special meeting of the town, held Dec. 7, obtaining a supply from some system of works 

1S69, the advisability of purchasing the planl of already constructed. The committee addressed 

the Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Company was con- communications to the towns of Newton and 

sidered. The record- state "after a full discus- Wesl Roxbury requesting co-operation in obtain- 

sion of the subject, as also of various subjects ing a water supply. 

connected therewith, the motion was put on it- The town of Newton did not reply to the corn- 
passage, and decided in the negative." munication, and West Roxbury stated that there 

Again the question of "supplying the town with was no prospect oi any action being taken such 
pure water' 1 was presented to the public, and at as the committee invited The city of Boston 
a meeting held May 2, 1871, a vote was passed was also addressed regarding the matter, and the 
authorizing the Moderator to appoint a committee question was considered by the Cochituate 
of five to consider the matter and report at a Water Board, who finally stated that owing to the 
inline meeting. Under this vote the Moderator then limited supply of the city, it would be mi- 
nted John W. Candler. William Aspinwall, possible to comply with the town'- request 
Amos A. Lawrence, Charles D. Head and Edward The project of obtaining cooperation from 
S. Philbrick. The name of George V. Homer adjoining municipalities was then abandoned, 
was added to this committee by the meeting. and plans at once commenced for obtaining an 

This committee reported to some length at a independent supply from Charles River. 

I meeting of the town, held .lam 23, 1872, Messrs. Shedd ami Sawyer were employed by 

of various plans considered, and finally recom- the committee to prepare a general plan oi the 

mended the establishment of an independent works, together with estimates of cost. The plan 

plant on lands then owned by the Brookline Land proposed by them was to construct, on the left 

Company, near the present site of the free bank of the Charles River, Dedham. near Cow 

Hospital for Women. Pond Avenue. The town Island, a filtering basin from which the wate 

voted to accept the report ami referred the sub- to he conveyed to a pumping station to he built 

jeel back to the committee with power to confer on the right bank of the Charles river near Cow 

with the Jamaica Pond Aqueduct C pany and Island. Pumping machinery, with a daily capa- 

report at a future meeting. This report was city of 1,500,000 gallons, was to be provided for 

made at the ne\t annual meeting. 1X72. and forcing the water to a reservoir to he built on 

mended, in brief, that a upply he Walnut Hill. Brookline. 

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The estimated cosl of this work was $370,000. and an appropriation of four hundred thousand 

The matter was duly presented to the town ;it dollars was made for the work. 

ilir annual meeting, ls73. an appropriation of A board of Water Commissioners, consisting of 

four hundred thousand dollars asked for. Lt was Charles K. Kirby, Charles II. Drew, and William 

postponed, however, until April 1 I . at which time Aspinwall, had been elected at the annual meeting 

a vote of the town was taken, and the appropria- of tin- year 1873 and under their direction 

t ion of the necessary funds was defeated. the actual construction of the water works was 

Considerable opposition to the movement was commenced. 
manifest at this time, some claiming thai the Mr. Edward S. Philbrick, a resident of Brook- 
waters of Charles river contained arsenic. Samples line, was employed as the engineer of the Board. 
of water, taken from the waste way "I' a tanner) . Surveys were at once commenced and a general 
located near the proposed source of supply, were plan of construction prepared. Tins plan, as 
taken by some "I the opposition and sent to a finally adopted, was to take the water supply 
chemist for analysis. The report of the chemist from the filtering galleries, in be located on the 
showing that arsenic existed in the samples sub- westerly side of Cow Island, \Ves1 Roxbury, 
mitted, was printed mi posters and distributed convey it in the pumping station to be built mi 
throughout the town and caused considerable the edge of the swamp near Baker Street, West 
excitement. The mattei was, however, full) Roxbury, by means of a conduit, where it was to 
explained :it a town meeting, ami the persons be pumped to a reservoir on Fisher Ilill, Brook- 
responsible I'M spreading these untruthful state- line, :md from thence piped to all parts of the 
ments were held up to public ridicule. Public town. 

opinion seemed to have been ver\ unsettled al During the year 187-4 the filtering gallery, con- 
this time, and numerous town meetings were held dmi and pumping station, excepting the chimney, 
during the yeat for the purpose of discussing water were built and the force main and many of the 
supply matters; an entirely new committee was distributing pipes laid. The reservoir was also 
appointed by the town to investigate the matter partially constructed and a portion of the pump- 
anew. Tins committee held frequent meetings ing engine delivered. 

a ml gave hearings to the advocates of any source Work was resumed in the earl) Spring of 1875, 

of supply. The\' also employed an engineer. ami was practically completed during the month 

Mr. Clement Hersche! and had many analyses of of May of the same year. 

different samples of water made. During their The engine at West Roxbury was set in motion 

investigation they examined the following sources for the firsl time on May 15, 1875, and the first 

of supply: water taker supplied the '_'7th of the same month. 

Willow Bond. Brookline. \t the same time 362 applications for water had 

Jamaica Pond. West Roxbury. been made, representing nearly four hundred 

I Ii in-lit mi s Pond, Milton. families. 

Massapoag Pond, Sharon. With the completion of the works it became 
Cypress St reel plain. Brookline. necessary that a general superintendent should 
from thr cit) nf Boston. be appointed, ami Mr. F. F. Forbes, a civil 
A full report of each of these sources of supply engineer employed during the construction of the 
was submitted to the town, togethei with thai of works, was selected to fill this position. 
the engineer. The committee stated thai they Trouble with the conduit, connecting the filter- 
had two sources to choose from, t he others being ing galleries and pumping station, was experienced 
eliminated fur various causes: Charles river ami soon after its completion, and on investigation, it 
Massapoag pond, and concurred with their was found that the Akron pipe, of which it was 
engineer thai the latter source had superior ad- constructed, had settled and cracked in a number 
vantages. This report was accepted by the town of places. This pipe was therefore entirely 
and the committee discharged. Not withstand- removed and a wooden flume substituted, 
ing the recommendations of this body the town The total cost of the works to this time, as 
decided and, as it has since been proven, wisely, shown by the Final Report of the Water Com- 
to take the Charles river as a source of supply, missioners, was $481 029.55. 



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The above-mentioned eonduil was laid through 
,'i portion of a swamp, and, notwithstanding thai 
it was rebuill in less than one year from the time 
n was first constructed, it proved to be unsatis- 
factory. It seemed to be impossible to prevent 
(lie water from the swamp from finding its way 
into the wooden flume and many complaints of 
impure water were, in consequence, received l>v 
the Water Commissioners. The matter was 
finally brought to the attention of the town :it a 
special meeting held Oct. 10, IS7S, and was re- 
ferred tn a committee with inst ructions to investi- 
gate the matter and report .'it the next annual 
meeting. At this meeting a report was made, 
and the town voted to recommit the matter to the 
committee with instructions to report in print. 
more fully, in relation to the matter. Ai the 
next meet ing of the town, Mr. I [enry M. Whit ney, 
presented the report which recommended tlie 
moving of the pumping station to Cow Island, 
and relaying the conduit with cast iron pipe. 

The work was done in accordance with the 
recommendations of i he committee and effectually 
removed the trouble heretofore experienced. 

From the time these improvements were com- 
pleted until the early eighties the works proved 
amply sufficient I'm' all the recprirements of the 
town. With the development of the high lands, 
however, the need of a high service system was 
experienced. \ careful study of the situation 
was made by the Superintendent of the Works, 
Mi-. F. F. Forbes, who made the following recom- 
mendations: 'I'n build a pumping station mi 
Newton (Street, near the junction of Grove Street, 
t ake a water supply from the low service mains at 
this pii'mt and pump it to a stand-pipe In he con- 
structed mi Cabot Hill. Brookline, the summit of 
which being lol feet higher than Corey Hill, and 
the highest point of land in Brookline. 

This plan was duly approved by the Water 
Commissioners and broughl before the town and, 
at a special meeting, held June 1. 1884, the 
Treasurer was authori'/ed tn issue water script In 
the aniiiuni of i he appropriation for this work, 
viz., niie hundred thousand dollars. 

Work was at once commenced b\ I he Water 
Commissioner and the tank, a wroughl iron 
structure, with a capacity of I ,">().( too gallons, 
was completed by the middle of December of the 
same year. 

The pumping station was built and the engine 



completed to a sufficient extent for a preliminary 
tesl on Jul) 1 . L8S5. 

A force main, 12 inches in diameter, was laid 
from the pumping station along Civile. Warm 
and Heath Streets to the stand-pipe and was 
completed during the month of August, 1885. 
Water was soon afterwards turned on to the en- 
tire system, which proved itself to he thoroughly 
well built and fully capable of furnishing the 
highest levels of the town with a domestic and 
fire supply. 

Soon after the completion of the high service 
system, numerous complaints were received of a. 
very had taste and odor of the water. Investiga- 
tion showed that nearly all came from takers 
supplied from the high-service lank. Careful 
studies of cause and condition made by Super- 
intendent Forbes revealed the fact that micro- 
scopic Vegetable growths were t he sole cause of I he 
trouble. Light and heat were found to be the 
direct cause of the rapid development of these 
organisms, and. owing to the fad thai I he high- 
service tank was luuli wholly above ground, con- 
ditions were particularly favorable for micro- 
scopic growths. After much consideration of the 
problem, il was decided to cover the tank with a 
light tight roof; this was done, and so effectually 
prevented the further growth of organisms that 
no trouble has since been experienced from this 
cause 

The solving of tins problem was ot ureal im- 
portance in Hie town, as a hitherto source <il great 
annoyance could now be successfully remedied. 

The phenomenal growth of the town from 188.5 
to 1S90 taxed the resources of 1 he water depart- 
ment lo its utmost to maintain a proper supply. 
As early as July, 18S7, a special committee was 
appointed to consider and report upon the con- 
dition, necessity and manner of extending the 
water plant. This committee reported that in 
their opinion, the works should be extended and 
that application should be made io the Legisla- 
ture for additional powers to increase I he water 
Supply, and lo raise the needed monies for prose- 
CUt ing t he work. 

In accordance with the recommendations oi the 
commit tee, an Act of i he Legislature, granting i he 
right to lake a further water supply from the 
vicinity of the present source was secured. 

For the purpose of obtaining an additional 
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the i lharles river, and directly opposite the original 
holdings of the town, were purchased. 

The plans of this extension were prepared by 
Superintendent Forbes, and approved by the 
committee in charge, and the appropriation for 
the work, eighteen thousand dollars, was made at 
a town meeting held July S, 1SS9. Contracts 
for materials were made during the latter part of 
1S89, and the work of construction commenced 
in the early spring of the succeeding year. 

The manner of obtaining the water was radi- 
cally different from that employed at the time the 
works were constructed. Then, it will be remem- 
bered, filtering galleries were used which could 
only yield the amount naturally flowing from the 
ground. The present plan was in drive a system 
of •_'!. inch wells, in favorable localities, and pipe 
these to a general gathering main which was car- 
ried directly to the pumping station. By proper 
connections these wells could be piped directly to 
the pumps and the water draughted to a con- 
siderable depth, thus increasing the yield as 
needed. 

Owing to unfavorable weather conditions, the 
work of construction extended over a period of 
i wo years. On the completion of 1 he work 2,054 
feet of main pipe had been laid and 13 wells driven.- 

The general result obtained from tin- extension 
was very satisfactory, the additional supply being 
fully equal to the expectations of the Board. 

During the years of 1890 and 1S91 over three 
hundred acres of land, near the source of supply, 
were secured by purchase and seizure, thus 
amply providing for further extension. 

The daily consumption had now increased to 
such an extent that the works, a- originally built , 
weie inadequate to maintain a proper supply. 
The mailer was brought to the attention of the 
town, and mi Oct. 27, 1S91, a special committee 
was appointed to consider plans and reports of 
the Water Board "with reference to increasing 
the pumping facilities and laying a second force 
main, and to report with such recommendations 

as they m:i\ deem for the interests of the town, 
to a future town meeting." This committee re- 
ported to the town during the month of February, 
1 V 12, and recommended t he building of ,-i covered 
reservoir on Fisher Hill, the enlargement of the 
In- ervice pumping station, the purchase ol a 
high duty pumping engine and high pressure 
boilers and the lavins of a new twenty-inch force 



main. These recommendations were favorably 
received by the town, and at the adjourned annual 
meeting, held April 13, 1892, the sum of fifty- 
thousand dollars was appropriated for the con- 
struction of a covered reservoir and an addition 
to the low-service pumping station. 

At a special meeting of the town, held July 15, 
1892, the sum of thirty-four thousand dollars 
was appropriated lor the purchase of a high-duty 
pumping engine and boilers, and sixty thousand 
dollars for the laying of a new force mam. 

The plans for these important extensions, 
which were, m themselves, considerably larger 
than the original work.-, were made by Super- 
intendent Forbes, and to him should be given 
the credit of designing a system that is in every 
way a model of hydraulic engineering. 

During the year 1S!»2. the covered reservoir on 
fisher Hill, and the addition to the low- service 
pumping st at ion w ere built. The cast iron pipe 
for the new force main was delivered during the 
early spring of IS93 and laid during the following 
summer. 

The high-duty pumping engine was built by 
the Edward I'. Allis Company of Milwaukee, 
and was run for the first time on March 8, 1894. 

The driven well system at Cow Bay was ex- 
tended during the summer of 1894, and I IS new 
2\ inch wells were driven and connected with the 
gathering main, thus completing the important 
additions to 1 he works. 

During the year 1902 a new pumping engine. 
with a daily capacity of five million gallons, was 
installed al the low-service pumping station. 
The purpose for which this engine was purchased 
was in provide means of maintaining the supply 
should am accidenl occur to the regular pumping 
machinery. The Water Board, in their annual 
report of 1903, state that " the dangers of a water 
famine or a shortage of -apply, on account of in- 
sufficient [lumping machinery, are now so remote 
that they can be dismissed for years to come." 

Since the building of the covered reservoir on 
Fisher Hill the use of the old open reservoir, had. 
mi account of the disagreeable taste and odor of 
t he w at er stored therein, been entirely abandoned. 
As the new reservoir held less than one da\ r 's 
supply, ike covering of the existing open reser- 
voir, so that it might ke available for general 
torage, was recommended by (he Water Board. 

Plans were prepared by Air. F. F. Forbes, 



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Superintendent, and an appropriation of seventy- 
five thousand dollars for the work was made by 
the town at the annual meeting, 1903. 

The work of construction was commenced 
early in March. 1903. and was practically finished 
by November 1st, of the same year. 

With the completion of I his reservoir, the 
storage facilities of the department were greatly 
improved, there being no less than 7,500,000 gal- 
lons of water consl antly on hand, ready for instant 
use. 

During the year 1905 water meters were, in 
accordance with votes passed by the town, at- 
tached to all services, both public and private. 



quent meetings for the transaction of the ever- 
increasing business of the department., and cheei 
fully gives much valuable time to the affairs of 
the town. 

The services of (he Chairman. Mr. < >. li. Mowry, 
have been of especial value, as his t horough under- 
standing of metropolitan affairs has been of greal 
importance in adjusting questions t hat have arisen 
between the town ami si ate. 

As before stated, the flrsl Board of Water Com- 
missioners appointed Mr. F. F. Forbes as Super- 
intendent of the works, a position he has ably 
filled to the present time. 

The Clerk and Registrar, Mr. Z. Pi. Forbes, was 




PIERCE school. 



The universal use of meters is unquestionablj for 
t he besl interests of the public, as the expenditure 
of large sums for additional water supply will be 
further postponed by the checking of waste and 
unnecessary leakage. 

The management of the department lias, since 
its incorporation, been vested in a Board of three 
Water Commissioners, one of whom is elected each 
year. To them is given the authority to appoint 
a Clerk and Registrar, a Superintendent and such 
other employees as may be necessary. 

The present Board consists of Mi-. Oscar B. 
Mowry, chairman; .Mr. Timothy .1. Burke, and 
Dr. George H. Francis. This Board holds fre- 



the present in- 



appointed May 3, 1892, am 
cumbent. 

The condition of the works at the present time 
is excellent. An abundant, supply of pure, cool 
water is furnished by the filtering galleries and 
driven wells, and. by means of the greatly im- 
proved pumping machinery, is delivered to the 
consumer the same day it is drawn from the 
ground. The town owns ample lands in the 
vicinity of the source of supply for its protection 
from any possible polution and for future ex- 
tensions of the driven well system, and is fully 
equipped to furnish the town with a generous 
water supply for years to come. 



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about four hundred guests. Dr. Perin regards the 
foundation of this Institution as his best work. He 
is a member of the * )<ld Fellows, Masonic Fraternity, 
Bosti m ( 'ommanderv. 



Rev. George L. Perin. 

I'l.Rix, Ki\. Oeoroi I.. Rector of the Beacon 
Universalis! Church, Brookline, was born in Newton, 
|aspar Countv, Iowa, July 31, 1854, son "I Caleb 
and Man (Matteer). His grandparents were of 
New England birth. He was educated at Willu 
mette University, Salem, Oregon. Subsequently he 
attended the Divinity Si hool of St. Lawreni e College, 
Canton, X. V., graduating in June, 1878. He was 
ordained at Kent, Ohio, in September, [878, and 
first settled in a country church in Ohio; in 1880 he 
was stationed in the Universalis! Church in Bryan 
Williams County, Ohio; in 1882, pastor of Shawmul 
Universalis! Church in Boston, in [890 was appointed 
a member of the Universalist general mission to 
fapan and spent four years arranging the missions 
(here. He then returned to Boston and becami 
pastorofthe Every Da\ Church, and later became 

pastor of the Be; 1 Universalist Church in 

Brookline. 

Rev. Dr. Perin has just completed (1906) a hand- 
some church edifice a! Coolidge Corner, Brookline, 
but .ill of his spare moments arc devoted t » > the 
Franklin Square House, of which he is president. 
The Franklin Square House is one oi the must 
deserving of charitable and philanthropic institutions 
of the citv. It was founded by him in 1902 as a 
home-hotel for self-supporting girls and students 
with moderate incomes. The Institute iust over 
.$500,000, a large part of which I >r. Perin raised by 
personal solicitation. The home will accommodate 




Charles H. Utley. 

U 1 1 1 \ . Charles II., a resident of Brookline and 
,1 prominent business man, was born in Boston, 
November 27, [857. In [875 Mr. Utley entered the 
wholesale produce business, and continued in thai 
line till 1898. He came to Brookline in 1876, and 
has always taken a keen interest in the advancement 
and welfare of the town. He was Representative 
during the years [894, 1895, and [896. Oi recenl 
vears his many business connections have not allowed 
him time to serve Brookline in public life. Mr. 
Utley is, at the present time president of the Quincy 
Market Cold Storage & Warehouse Co., Treasurer 
of the Columbus Manufacturing Co., a 50,000 
spindle cotton mill, located at Columbus, <ia., l»i 
rei tor in the Bea< on Trust ( 'o., the \\ est Point Mann 
facturing Co., the Brookside Mills, and the River 
dale Mills. He was the first President of the River 
dale Casino and i- a member of Exchange, Art, 
Boston Athletic, Brae Burn, Country Clubs, and 
the Boston Chamber of Commerce. 



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The Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co. 

The history of Brookline would be incomplete 
if it did not apeak of the origin and growth of The 
Holtzer-Cabol Electric Co. For thirty-one years 
this industry, a distinctively Brookline enterprise, 
has been struggling upward through the various 
stages of development until to-day it is found 
occupying in its two factories. 100,000 square feel 
of floor space and employing normally aboul 600 
persons. It has become not only the leading in- 
dustry of Brookline, but a concern of far-reaching 



not by any means complete the lisl of applications 
of this wonderful force. It is obviously impossible 
for any one concern to cover the entire field in a 
thorough manner. It is believed, however, thai 
there is no concern in existence, the General 
Electric Co. alone excepted, which manufactures 
such a wide diversity of electrical appliances as 
does the Holtzer-Cabot Co. 

The business had its birth iii 1S74 in a -hop 
occupying the basement and first floor of the 
Harvard Building, Harvard Square, where Mr. 
Charles W. Holtzer conducted in his own name 



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reputation, whose name is known wherever 
electricity finds a commercial use. 

Ii is difficult forany person not working directly 
i,, the electrical lield to realize the extent to 
which this form of energy is being used. '1 he 
arc and incandescent lam]., electric motor, the 
storage battery, the electrolytic cell, the telegraph, 
telephone, fire alarm, dental and medical ap- 
pliances, electric furnace and electric heater, do 



t h e manufacture and installation of a number i f 
the early forms of electrical apparatus. Here 
the business remained four or five years, after 
which the first factory building, which is still 
standing on Boylston Street, was erected. Out- 
growing this building and an addition. Mr. 
Holtzer next purchased the Catholic Church on 
Station Street, part of it being fitted up to meel 
the demands of the business, and the remainder 



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being rented for various purposes. In the course 
of a few years, however, the rented portions were 
gradually absorbed, until the entire building 
wars required, as were also several additions and 
two four-story brick wings, which were erected 
as the business expanded. In 1902 t he Company 
found itself occupying all the available ground 
and demanding still more room, so in this year 
there was leased a six-story building on Albany 
Street, Boston, which is now devoted entirely to 
the work of the motor and dynamo department. 

In the early years of the business, attention was 
given only to the simpler forms oi electrical ap- 
paratus, batteries, bells, switches, etc. To .-Mine 
extent, also, the concern was occupied as a dealer 
in, and exporter of, certain electrical appliances 
which it did not manufacture. These, however, 
were dropped later, and the entire attention of 
the Company given to the manufacturing branch 
of the industry. It has been the policy of the 
Company to give attention particularly to the 
development of electrical specialties and to new 
and original applications ol electric current, 
and <ni that account the history of the Company 
is td a great extent interwoven with the com- 
mercial development oi elect rich y. 

The business divides roughly into two depart- 
ments, thai devoted to electro-dynamic machinery 
and that given to the manufacture of telephone 
apparatus and its allied lines. In the former 
department there are made dynamos fur generat- 
ing current for light and power purposes and 
motors lor a verj wide variety of uses. Here 

are made also special dynamos for the elect ro- 

deposition of metals, and various combinations 
and modifications of dynamos and motors lor the 
conversion of current from one kind to another. 
In the telephone department are produced 
switchboards magneto generators, receivers, 
transmitters, and other pans that go to make up 
complete telephones. An important line oi this 
Company for a number of years, has been a 
special system of inter-communicating tele- 
phones for connecting the different pails of 

factories, resiliences, stores, schools, etc. 

Other appliances made in this department, 

and employed in the electrical transmission ol 
ignals, are the familar house and hotel an- 



nunciators, and the watchman's time detector. 
A meat variety of gongs, bells and electrically 
and mechanically operated alarms are niaiiu- 
fact ured in t his department. 

The name of the Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co. is 
prominently identified with the growth of the 
independent telephone movement in the South 
and West. Being one of the first to enter the 
tield, it has kept pact 1 with the development of 
i he enterprise, and its apparatus is used very 
largely in the independent telephone exchanges 
throughout the country. Equalh well known is 
i he special machinery made by this Companj for 
the power plant equipment of central energy 
telephone systems. The Holt /.er-t 'aliol Electric 
Co. manufactures, practically to the exclusion of 
all other manufacturers, power plant machinerj 
fur the independent telephone manufacturers of 

I he lulled Slates. 

In the various departments of I he I'nited 
States Government, the apparat us of t he Holtzer- 
Cabot Electric Co. has found considerable favor, 
for ten years the Post Office Department has 
bought from tin- Company almost its entire 
supply of motors lor ope rat ing canceling machines. 
The War Department is using a number of 
Holtzer-Cabot motors for operating the disap- 
pea mm gun carriages and foi' other purposes, also 
special telephones for submarine work and for 
controlling .nun lire. On eighteen or more of our 
later battleships, cruisers, training ships, sub- 
n: in, torpedo boat-, etc., are to be found 
I kill er-Cabot motors, telephones, and signaling 
apparatus, winch have been especially designed 
1 1. i noil i he exacting sen ice 

The official life of the Company has undergone 
a number of changes. In 1SS7 Mr. Holtzer as- 
sociated with him Mr. George E. Cabot, and two 
years later the linn was incorporated under t In- 
laws of Massachusetts as kin- Holtzer-Cabot 
Electric Company. The present officials ol the 
( 'ompany are as follows : 

President, Charles W. Holtzer ; Secretary and 
Treasurer. William S. Kemp: General Manager, 
Thomas W. N'ess ; Assistant General Manager, 
William E. llaseltme ; Western Manager, Edwin 
R. Harding. 



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BROOKLINE TOWN GOVERNMENT, 1906. 



Town Clerk, Edward \V. Baker. 
Selectmen and Board of Health. William 
Craig, chairman, Horace James, Nathaniel Co- 
naut. John A. Curtin, Philip S. Parker, Edward 
A. McEttrick, Clerk, Geo. I'. Joyce, Sec'y. 

Overseers of the Poor.- William Craig, Horace 

James, Nathaniel Conant, John A. Curtin. Philip 

S. Taikcr. Mi~- Martha W. Edgerly, Mi-- Sarah 

I'.. Train. 

Treasurer and Collector. < ieorge 11. Worthley. 

Assessors. Charles II. Stearns, Tl as 11. 

Talbol . Daniel J. Daley. 

11. Lincoln Chase, M. D., Agent Board of 
Health. 

Francis P. Denny, M. 1>., Bacteriologisl and 
I lirector of Laboratory. 

Frederick H. ( tsgood, M. R. C. V. S., Inspector 
of Animal-, Provisions and Milk. 

School Committee.— Mrs. Edith C. Baker, 
Franklin W. Hobbs, Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, 
Everetl M. Bowker, Mrs. Ruth C. Paine, Michael 
Driscoll, Waller Channing, William 11. Lyon, 
< ieorge I. Aldrich, Superintendenl . 

Trustees of Public Library. William H. Lyon, 
Edward Stanwood, Leonard K. Storrs, Frederick 
L. Gay, Rufus G. F. Candage, Desmond Fitz- 
Gerald, Tappan E. Francis. Moses Williams, 
Daniel Dulany Addison, James M. Codman, 
Prentiss Cmnmings, Leslie C. Wead. Louisa 
M. Hooper, Librarian. 

Trustees of Walnut Hills Cemetery.- Desmond 
1 itzGerald, Leonard K. Storrs, Harvey II. Baker, 
t I,;, rles 11. Stearns, Frederick P. Cabot, Charles 
S. Sargent. 

Water Board. Oscar B. Mowry, Timothy J. 
Burke, < Ieorge II. Francis. 
Supt. of Water Works. Fayette A. Forbes. 



Park Commissioners. Desmond FitzGerald, 
Charles S. Sargent, AlbeH L. Lincoln. 

Committee for Planting Trees.- Lyman .1. 
Clark, .lame- II. Bowditch, Miss Emma G. Cuin- 
mings. 

Auditors.— Gardner C. Brooks, Charles F. 
Read, < Ieorge Rogers. 

Town Clerks.— The following list enumerates 
the town clerks who have served the town oi 
Brookline, and the periods when each have held 
office: 

Josiah Winchester, Sr., 1706-07 and .10-13; 
Sam'l Sewall, 1708-09 and (12-14-26; Thos. 
Stedman, 1711; John Seaver, 1715-16 and Il- 
ls: Edward White, 1727-45; Henry Sewall, 
1746; Ebenezer Davis, 1747-48 and 49-51; 
Henry Davis, L750; Jonathan Winchester, 17.72- 
:,7; Isaac Gardner. Jr., 175S-75; Stephen Sharp, 
1776-1S13; Oliver Whyte, 1S14-'41; Otis With- 
ington, LS42-45; Artemus Newell, 1846-'49; Wil- 
liam Aspinwall, 1S50-51; Benj. F. Fakir. 1852- 
98; Edward W. Baker, present incumbent. 

Town Treasurers. "I he following list enum- 
erates the treasurers v. ho have served the town oi 
Brookline and the periods when each have held: 
Sam'] Sewall, Jr.. 1707-12-14-15-1S-26; Josiah 
Winchester, 1713-16; Joseph Goddard, 1717: 
Edward White. 1719-25, Sam'l White, 1727-45; 
Henry Sewall, 1746; Ebenezer Davis, 1747-49-51- 
c.s-72: Henry Davis, 1750; Jonathan Winchester, 
17.7_!-.".7: Isaac Gardner Jr.. 175S-67-70; Benj. 
While. 1 7 7 : ; 7 '. » : Major Wm. Thompson, 17S0; 
Dr. Wm. Aspinwall, 1781-90; Stephen Sharp, 
L791-1S13; Ebenezer Heath, 181 1-28; < >liver 
Whyte. ks'_"i-:;7: Artemas Newell. 1S3S-47; Me 
phen S. ('. .lone-. 1848; Moses Withington. 
1S49-S4; Geo. II. Worthley, present imcumbent. 



LMT 



BROOK LINE, MA SSACH USETTS 



LIST OF SELECTMEN. REPRESENTATIVES TO MASSA- 
CHUSETTS LEGISLATURE AND TRUSTEES OF 
PUBLIC LIBRARY FROM 1705 TO 1906. TOWN OF 
BROOKLINE. 



GARDNER, LIEUT., THOMAS. L706, '07 

11, '12. 
ASPINWALL, SAMUEL, L706, '"7. 11 

'12, '1 1. '15, '16, '17, '18. 
WINCHESTER, JOHN, 1706, '07, '08, '09 

'10, '1 1. '16, '25, '26, '33, '37. 
WHITE, BENJAMIN, 1706, '17, 'Is, '27 

'2S, '29 '30, '31, '32, 
STEDMAN, THOMAS, L707, 'OS, '09, '10 

'13, '16, 'IS. 
SEWELL, S \ \1 LIEL, 1706, 'us. '09, '10 

'12, '1 1. '15. 
DREW, EROSAMOND, L713. 
WINCHESTER, JOSIAH, 1713, 1 1. '17. 
SEAVER, JOHN. 1715, 'IS, '37. 
GARDNER, JOSEPH, 1719, '20. 
WINCHESTER, LIEUT., HENRY, 1719 

'20, '21, '22. '23, '24, '25, '36, 'in. 
GARDNER, CAPT., CALEB, 1719, '20 

'21, '22, '25, '27, '2S, '29, '30, ' 11 
GRIGGS JAMES, 1721, '26 
BOYLSTON, PETER, 1722, "23. '24. 
WHITE, SAMUEL, 1723, '24 '25, '34, '35 

'36, "39. 'In. '11. '42. '43, 'II, '45, '46 

'47, 'is, '49, '50, '51, '.".2. '.".2. '54, '57 
GARDNER, ISAAC, 1725, '33, ' !7, '45, '46 

'47. 
SHARP, CAPT., ROBERT, L726, '27, '28 

'29. 2:2. '34, '2:,. '3S, '39, '17. 'is, '49 
COTTON, DEACON, THOMAS, 1730. 
WOODWARD, ABRAHAM, 1731, '34, '35 

'43, '50, '51, '54, '55, '56, '57, 58, '59 
WINCHESTER, 101.11 ANN AN, L731, '32 
WHITE, ('APT.. EDWARD, 1733, '36 

'40, '12. '43, '17, '52, '53. 
CLARK, SAMUEL, 173 !, '36 
CHILD, JOSHUA, 173 
GLEASON, WILLIAM, 1738, '39. 
GARDNER, CAPT., BENJAMIN, 173S 

'55, '56 
VSI'l.NWALL. COL., THOMAS, 1738, '11 

'42, '44, '45, '46, '17. is, '49, '5S, '76 

'79, '85. 
SEAVER, NATHANIEL, L738. 
DAVIS. WILLIAM. 1741. 
BOYLSTON, UK . ZABDIEL, 1711. 
DAVIS, DEACON, EBENEZER, 1750, 

'51, '59, '60, T.I, '62, '63, 'til. '65, '66 

'85, '86, 'HI. '92 
SEWALL, HENRY, 1 7 r. U . '53, '60, '61. 
WINCHESTER, JONATHAN, 1754, '55 

'56, T.7. 
HANTS. NEHEMIAH, 1754, '59. 
WHITE, DEACON, JOSEPH, 1756. '5S. 
GRIDLEY, JEREMY, 1760, '61, '67 



HARRIS, JOHN. JR., 1760, '61, '62, '63 

'ill. '65, '66, '67, '6S, '69, '9 I. '95. 
G VRDNER, IS VAC, JR., 1760, 'HI. '62 

'63, '6 I, '65, I'll. '67, '68, '69, '71. '7? 

'73, '85, 'S6, 
WHITE, ('ALT , BENJAMIN, 1762, 6 ■ 

6 I '65, '66, '67, '6S, '70, '71 , '72. '73 

'7 I, '75. '7i'., "7S, '79, 'SI. 'si'. 
si! \l;L C \I'T ROBERT, .11! . 1762 '6 ! 

'6 I. '65, '66. 
WHITE, MAJOR, MOSES, 1765, '7s. '79 

'S3, 's I. 'S7, 'SS, '89, '90. 
GODDARD, CAPT . JOHN. 1767, '6.' 69 

'7 I. '76, '7S, 'SO, '81, 'S2, "So, 'si',. :i : 
GRIGGS, THOMAS. 1768, '69, '75, '76. 
GARDNER, KI.ISII A, 1769, '77. 
WINCHESTER, ISAAC 1770. 
CHILD, IS \ \i\ 177U. '71. '72, '73, '74, 

'75, '76 
I Hi IM ['SON MAJOR, WILLIAM. 177n. 

'SO, 
COREY. CAPT., TIMOTHY. I777. '93, 

'94, '95. 
WINCHESTER, ELHANAN, 1778. 
OK \LT. CAPT., SAMUEL, 177s, '79, ^7 

'SS, 'S9, ''J". '99, I S00, 'ill . '02, '03, '04. 

'05, 'in'., 'n7, 'us, '09 
SHARP, STEPHEN, 177'J, '83, 'si, '93, 

'96, '97, 'US. Jill, lsiiu. 'ill. 'irj. '03, 

'n 1. '05, 'hi'., 'n7. 'us. '09, 'in. 'II. 'Li. 

'13. 
CAMPBELL, CAPT., WILLIAM. 17S0, 

'SI, '82. 
('HALT, CALEB, 17s;:. si. Til. '92. 
DANA, DANIEL, 17s:,. 
CLARK, DEACON, SAMI 171,. 1 7 s 7 . 'SS. 

'89, Jin. '99, 1SO0, 'nl. '02, '03, '04, 

'05, "I. '07, 'ns. 'mi. 
GARDNER, ISAAC S., 1791, '92, '96, '97, 

Jis. 1S14, '15, 'U'.. '17. 
WINCHESTER, NATHANIEL, 1794, '95. 
C( IDDARD, CAPT , JOSEPH, 1796, '97, 

'is. 1805, '11. '12. '13, '14. '15, '111. 
17. 
ROBINSON, DEACON, JOHN. 1S05, 'ml. 

'ii7, 'us. '|ii, '1 I. '12, '13, '1 1, '15, 'HI. '17. 

'IS. 'III. '2u. '21, '22, '22, '21. '2:., '26 

'27. '28. '211, '30, '21. '22, '22, '34. 

SPURR, ELIPHALET, IS07, 'us, 'In. 
MURDOCK, NATHANIEL, IMS. '19, '20, 

'21. '22. '22. '2 1. 
WHYTE. OLIVER, ISIS, '19, '20, '21, '22. 

'22. '21. '2:.. '21;. '27. '28, '29, 10 
HEATH EBENEZER, IS25, '26, '27. '2S, 

29 



24S 



BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS 



LEEDS, JAMES, 1830, '31. 
HAYDEN, .KiHX, 1831, '32, '34. 
STEARNS, CHARLES, JR., 1S32, 

'34, '35, '36, '37, '3S, '39, '1". '41. 
THAYER, JOHN, 1833. 
SANDERSON, DANIEL, 1S35, '36, '3 
GODDARD, ABI.IAH W., LS35, '36, '3 
HUNTING, REUBIN, 183S. 
I '.ASS. JOHN W., 1S3S, '39. 
ROBINSON, JAMES, 1S39, '40, '41. 
DAVIS, BENJAMIN IJ .. LS40, '41. 
SANDERSON, DANIEL, 1S42, '43, 

'4:,. '47. 
COOLIDGE, DAVID, 1S42, '43, '14. 



'I I. 



HUMPHREY, WILLARD A., 1S5S, '59. 
PARSONS, THOMAS. 1S5S, '59, '60, '61, 

'62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67, '6S, '69, '70, 

'74. '75. 
SECCOMB. EDWARD R., 1S60, '61, '62. 
CHAPIN, NATHANIEL G . 1S60, '61, '62, 

'i',::. 
GRIGGS, WILLIAM .1., 1S63, '64, '65, '66, 

'>;7. '68, '69, '7(i. 
PHILBRICK, EDWARD S , 1S64, '65, 

'66, '67, '6S, '69. 
I \.\1ES. HORACE, IS67 to 1S76, 187S to 

1S82, 1SS5 in L900 Inclusive; 1902, 

'03, '0 I. '05, ''"'>. 




HIItII sc 



BROOKL1NE. 



GRIGGS, THOMAS, 1842, '43, '44. 
STEARNS, MARSHALL, 1845, '46, '49, 

'55, '56, '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, 

•64, '65, '66. 
BARTLETT, JAMES, 1845, '46, '17. 'In. 

'i:i, '50, '51, '."">_'. '53, '"4. ':,:,, '56, '57, 

'58, '59, '60, 'Cil, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, 

'67, '68, '69. 
SANBORN, HUGH M., 1S4C, '47. '48. 
STODDARD, BELA, lsls. 
CRAFT, SAMUEL, 1st!'. 
DAVENPORT, JERATHMEEL, 1850, '51, 

'52, '53. 
DEARBORN. WILLIAM, 1850, '51, '.".2. 
COOLIDGE, DAVID S., 1852, '53, '54. 
ABBOTT, JOHN ('.. 1854. 
WILLIAMS. HOWARD S. is:.."., '56, '57, 

'5S. '59. 



HEAD, CHARLES D., Is7'i. '71. '72, '7:'.. 

'74. '7:.. 
WHITTEMORE, AUGUSTUS, 1S70 
ASPINWALL, WILLIAM. 1871, '72. 
KIRBY. CHARLES K . LS71, '72, '73, '71. 

EDGERLEY, JAMES W. 1871, '72, '73, 

'78. 
RROADHEAH. DANIEL S. L873. 
BENTON, AUSTIN W.. 1x74. '75 
BOWDITCH, WILLIAM I., 1S76, '77, '78 
CODMAN, JAMES M.. 1S76, '77. 
LAWRENCE. FRANCIS W.. [S76, '77. 

'78, '79, '82, '83, '84, '85, 'si;, 'S7. 
RUSSELL, MARSHALL. 1S76, '77. 
WHYTE. OLIVER. 1877, '78, '79, 'SO, 'SI, 

'83, '84. 
U II.I.IAMS. MOSES, JR., 1879. 



'-'49 



BROOK LI. XE, MASSACHUSETTS 



CANDAGB, R. G. F., 1S79, 'SO, 'SI. 
DREW. CHARLES II.. 1SS0, '81, '82, 

'94, '95, '96. 
LIXCol.X, i;i)I.A\H C . lN.su. 'M. 

coolidge, william d„ lss2. 
lyford, nathaniel, 1882. 
spaulihm;. ciiaklks f.. is<?3. 
rogers, john k . 1ss3, '84, 's5. 
chandler, alfred d., 1ss4, 

resigned Nov. is, 18S6. 
HAND, JAMES I! . LSS4, '85, 'SG, 

'90, '91, '92, '93. 
LINCOLN, ALBERT, JR., Ism'.. ' 

'Mi. '90, '91, '9i'. 
BOWKER, WATTS II.. ISS7. 'SS, 
DALAND, TUCKER, ISSS, 'S9, ' 

'92, '93, '94. 
CHESTER, WALSTEIN R., issg. 



'S3. 



'85, 


'm; 


'■'.7. 


'SS 


S7, 


'SS 


'89 


'90 


90, 


'91 



9 



I'INKIIA.M. TIIFODORK, 1831, '92. 
CODMAN, .IAMES M., .IK.. 1S93, 'H I 

'96, '97, '98, '99, I '01, '02, '03, 

'05, '06, resigned 1906, succeede 

Philip S. Parker. 
SEAVER, WILLIAM J . IS94, 
CONANT, X ATI IAN 110 1.. 1S95 

'9S, '99, 1900, ''M. '02, '03 

'06. 
MERRILL, LUTHER M., 

'99, I! , 'in. 

HUMPHREY, WILLI \ VI 

'9S, '99, 1900, 'nl, 't'- 
PEARSON. CHARLES II 
(KALI, WILLIAM, 1904 
CURTIN, JOHN A , L906. 
P \i;kli;. PHILIP S.. 1906 



'93. 
. '95, 
'04, 

(1 by 



I"'.. 

Ml. 



1S96, '97, 

F., ism;. 
'03, 'ul. 

., mill, 'in' 
'05, 'in;. 



':i7, 
'05, 



'98, 



'97. 



LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES TO GENERAL COURT, 
1709 TO 1906. 



WINCHESTER JOHN, [709, 10 
WINCHESTER, JOSIAH, 1711. 'I:; '17. 
SEW U.I.. S WILLI.. JR., 1712. 
GARDNER, LIEUT., THOMAS, 1718. 
No representation, 1711. '15, '16, '19, 

'I'll. 
EDWARD WHITE, 1721, '22. '23, '24, '26 

'41. '42, '47. 
No record tor 1725 
SAMUEL WHITE, 17-7, 'I'll, '30, '35, 

'36, '37, ':::». '43, '11. '49. 
No record, 172S. 
BENJAMIN WHITE, 1731. 
No record, 1 732, ':::: 
Voted urn in send, 1 7:; I. 
No record, 173S. 
Voted mil in send, 1 7 In. 
No record, 1745. 
Voted mil in send, 1746, 'is, '50, '.".1, 

7.2. ':.::. 7.1. '58, '59, '6(1, '61, '62, '63, 

'64, '65, '66. 
GRIDLEY, JEREMIAH, 1755, '56, '57, 

'67. 
WHITE, CAI'T, BENJAMIN, 176S, "70, 

'71, '72, '7:;, '71. '75, 'SI, 'S3. 
MAVIS. DEACON, EBENEZER, 1769 
GODDARD, JOHN, 1776, 'si. '85, '86, 

's7. 'ss, 'S9, '92 
WINCHESTER, ELHANAN, 1777. 
ASPINWALL, COL. THOM \S. 177S. 

'711. 'SO. 
Voted urn in -'-ml. 1 7SL'. '93. 
\SI'I.\W ALL. DR., WILLIAM. 1790, 

'in. ':n. '95, '96, '97, '98, '99. 



SHARP, STEPHEN, ISO0 to 1S12. 
i: VRDNER, ISAAC S .. ls|:;. '1 I. '15, 
HI. '17. 'is. 

ROBINSON, DEACON, JOHN, ]S|9 to 
isi'7. 1S30 in is:;:;. 

CLARK, DEACON, JOSHUA ('. 1828, 

'29, 
Voted inn In send, 1S34, 
GRIGGS, I' Will R., 1835. 
GRIGGS, DEACON, THOMAS, IS36, 

'37, '3S. 
No choice, 1S39. 
OLIVER, HENRY .1. IS40. 
Voted inn in send, l s 1 1 . 
KENDALL, DEACl IN 11 1 < i \l \S, ls|-. 

'43, 'II. 
No choice, IS 15, ' Hi 
HOWE, JOHN, 1S17, IS 
STEARNS, M UiSIIAI.L. Ism 
ASPINWALL, WILLIAM. 1850, '51 
HUMPHREY, WILLARD A . IS52, '5 I 
WILDER, DAVID, JR., IS54. 
TURNER, JOHN N., 1S55. 
Gl DDARD, ABIJAH W., 1856, '68. 
I'AKSOXS. Tlh i.MAS ls:,7. T.s. '59, '61, 

'62, 'Ci7. 
SECCOMB, EDWARD R., 1S60. 
BARTLETT, .1AM [OS. 1S63, '64. 
CANDLER, .liiHX W , ISC,;,. 
IH IMER, GEORGE F„ 1S66. 
BEARD, ALANSON W., IS69, '70. 
BENTON, AUSTIN W., 1S71, '72. 

1873, '7 1, '75. 



WILLIAMS. MOSES, JR.. 



261 1 



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THOMAS. EDWARD I.. LS76, '77, '78, 

'7'.'. 'SO. 
CANDAGE, HI-FI'S G. F., 1881, '82, 

'S3. 
BAKER, BENJAMIN F., 1884. 
FAY. CLEMENT K, 18S5, '86. 
CARPENTER, GEORGE N . 1SS7, 'SS, 

■S9. '90, '91. 
BATES, .1 \'i IB P . 1S92. 



WHITE, WILLIAM H., 1893. 
UTLEY, CHARLES H.. 1894, '95, '96. 
GIBBS, EMERY B., 1897. 
('OILMAN. JAMES M., JR., 1S98. 
DEAN, BENJAMIN C, 1899, 1900, '01, 

'02, '03. 
WALKER, JOSEPH, 1904, '05, '06, 

elected for 1907. 
WHITE, NORMAN II ., elected for 1907. 



TRUSTEES OF BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY. FROM 



1857 TO 1906. 



PARSONS, TlloMAS. first president of 

board, 1S57 to 18S6. 
HEDGE, REV. F. H . 1S57 I" 186 I 
I. \\\ RENCE, AMOS A., IS57 to 1862. 
BOWDITCH, \V.\I. I., 1S57 to 1861, 1S67 

to 1S72. 
BAKER, BENJAMIN F., 1857 to 1874, 

1SS0 i" 1S92, 1S93, '94, '95, '96, 97 

'98. 
BARTLETT, JAMES, 1S57. 
STEARNS, MARSHALL, 1S57. 
DANA, EDWARD A . 1857, '58, '65, '66, 

'67, '68. 
CHANDLER, T. P., 1S57 to 1S66. 
TURNER, JOHN X. 1857 to 1863. 
HOWE, JAMES M., 1857 to 1862. 
ATKINSON. EDWARD, 1857. 
HOMER, GEORGE F., 1858 to 1875. 
ASPINWALL, WILLIAM. LS5S to 1875, 

'79 to 1S92. 
DUPEE, JAMES A .. 1S5S, '62. 
EMERSON, E. C , 1S59 to 1869. 



WILLIAM 



1859 to 



LS6: 

. '64. 

I).. 



to 1870. 



WELLMAN, 

1st;::. 
COTTING, CHARLES U., 
DIMAN, LEV . J. 1... LS63 
PHILBRICK, WILLIAM 

1S66. 
CANDLER, JOHN W. 1S64 ti 
LAMSON, REV., WILLIAM, 

1876. 
SHEDD, J. H.. 1864, '65 
HEAD, oil Utl.ES D., 1S66 to 1889 
VBBI »TT, JOHN (' . IS67 to 1870. 
SHURTLIFF, DR., AUGUSTINE, 1S69 
to II ■ 



1863 

is;:'.. 
1864 



to 



to 



CABOT, EDWARD C, 1870 to 1874. 
AMOKY, DR , ROBERT, 1S71 to 1877. 
CANDAGE, R. ti. F.. 1871 to 1906 in 

elusive. 
DAVIS, ROBERT S. 1S73 to 1S75. 
TOWLE, GEORGE M.. 1S74 to 1888. 
CODMAN, JAMES M., 1S75 to 1906. 
CHANDLER, ALFRED D., 1875 to 

1S87. 
DREW. CHARLES H., 1876 to 1903. 
V, ELLS, JOHN. 1S76. 
FAY, CLEMENT K.. 1S71 to 1875. 
BROWN, REV., II. N . 1S77 to 1895. 
, OOR, HENRY V., 1877, '79. 
WHITNEY. HENRY M., 1878, '79 
FARLEY. JAMES P., JR., l s ~\ '"'. ; . 
I \l.i:oT. THOMAS II.. 1S80. 
I'l; \.\t'IS. DR., T. E., 1SS1 to 1906. 
HASELTINE, WILLIAM B., 1881 

1895. 
FITZ GERALD, DESMOND, tsss 

1906. 
SOULE, CHARLES C , 1889 to 1899. 
HOVEY, EDWARD E., 1889 to 1892. 
STORRS, LEONARD K.. 1890 to 1906. 
STANWOOD, EDWARD, 1893 to 1906 
CUMMINGS, PRENTISS, 1896 to }:'"<■ 
HO \H. J. EMERY, 1896 to 1902. 
NoRTH, S. N. D.. 1899 to 1903. 
LYON, WILLIAM H, 1900 to 1906 
ADDISON, DANIEL D.. 1902 to 1906 
WILLIAMS, MOSEC, 1903 to 1906. 
GAY, FREDERICK L., 1904 .0 1906 
WEAD. LESLIE C, 1905 to 1906 



'SO. 



to 



to 



261 



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Town Hail 

Mi SFIl [PAL Bl II MM. 

I'l Bl h LlBR \RV . 

PlERI 1 II \l L, FlRSI T()\\ \ II \l I 

1 1 \];\ akh Si.ir \rj., 18(15 
1 1 \i<\ m;i> Sqi M'l , 1905 

M \',l \l TR \IM\i. Si I 

Pierci School 
Riverdali Park . 

liki I0K1 l\ I Pi MPINi 

[•'iRST I' WMMI (III Rl II 
S I . M \RK'S ( 'ill Rl II 

iiRiinki im ( ;ymn wi m 

( ul \ I RV ( 'l I k. 

I m>\\ \i;n Df.Vi \ 

I'jiu \ki. Devotion 

I'lRI I 1 1 PARTMl M 
I I I \ I II Si Hi nil 

St. Pai i 's ( 'in i;i ii 
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( i |\ I \i.li II is I li ISPJ i \i 

Riverdali C \mm i 
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I! mm im Church . 

BROOK] IM ll\lll llulM 

Residence on Wai mi Streei 
s. S. I'm ri i ( '. i\[i>\\Y Building . 

Ki sum M i oi Mrs. E. I >. Bran u 

Ri Min \i i hi \\ ii i i wi Wiin \i w 



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1 II 


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Bri h ik II u COTTAGl 

Residenci i ii F. E. A i 1 1 \i \ 
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I )| V. ITION Si IIiiuI 

Ri sid] \i i hi 1 1 ri i\i i Jones 
k i - 1 1 MM i hi J . Murray K.u 
Residenci hi Ii. F. Ki 1 1 ii 

Rl SIDENi I' ni. Mrs. John L. < \ \kh\i R 

Residence of F. I'. Fish 
Residence of Ji iseph II. White 
Residj mi hi F. E. Atteaux 

Rum STON lhsl.nl> 1.1 1 I Im SI 

Tin: Thou \- J. Parsons Hoi si 
Residenci of Charles C. Parsons 
Hampti in Court 

Reside mi of Wn i i ui J. Sui.i [van 
Residexi I ui J M ui: W. I'll Rl I 
Braxdon Hall .... 

BlRl l'S I '.\ I \ II W ' IF llRi H iKI.IVI 

Bird's-Eye View of Brooklixj 

Residi mi ui' E. J. Mm roN . 

Ri sim mi 1 1\ Win mi i Road 

Emerson House - 

Lawri mi. Schooi 

Boylston Stri i.i 

Colchester Street 

Risimmi ui Mrs. Martha E. Kiiiri 

l\ I SID) M I OF Wll.I.I wi M. Smiw 

Old Brooklixi Reservoir . 
Harvard Square, tqo6 
Sumxer & Clixton Roads . 
Schlesixger Estate 
Residence of Kim; < '. Gillette 
l'i 1 1 1 Rii \m School 
New R \i'i est Cm rcii . 
1 lui rzi r < 'abi it Co. 
Brookline Hum School 



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Addison, Daniei I >i i w i \ , 111 
Ai i en. John Hi nry, 111. 
Asi'ixu \i i . \\ n i.i \\i 
\\ i me, Ch \kl Is Lincoi .\, I 
Atteaux, I'. K., 111. 

A I r.ANOON, Edw \i;n 

Baker, William I. ..'111. 

B \kl R, III \| \\ll\ I ■'.. Ill 
BARR1 S, (Im IRC.1 1 1., HI. 
Ill MIS, Al BION 1'.. III. . 
Ill \\l I I, S. I). . 

Bingham, Gfj irgi P., 111. 
Birtw in. Charles \Y., 111. 
Ki \ki , Thomas D, 
Bowditch, William I. 
Bowki r, I . \I., 111. 
Briggs, 1 . I. . III. 

Bri ii iks, CiEORGl ( ' 

Candagi . R. ( '•. F. 

Candler, J. W. 

Carvj r, I I i.I m I' 

Ch \wi\r;. Wai iik M. ! >.. II 

Chandler, Ai i i-i i > 

Cii \si . Cai.i b, III. 

( 'i \i:ki , Am \s\. 111. 

Clem \ r, I". If. 

( 'odm \\. J wns M. 

'] R, Al MON I'.. III. . 

( 'k ug, Wii i i\m. 111. 
Cummings, Prentiss, III. 
Ci i; n\, J. A. 
Dai iv. Daniei D., 111. 

I i \\ [S, l\i 'i;i B i Sii \i'i'. Ill . 
1 (avis, L. Shannon, III. 
hi w. Bj \j \mi\ C, 111. 

1)1 \ I I R, fONATHAN L., III. 

Dickinson, M. I'., 111. . 
Dolan, Matthew, HI . 
I )risi in i , Michael, 111. 
Dunbar, [ames R. 
Estes, Dana, III. . 

I.l.i. \k, ( 'II \kl is I. , 111. 
I'll/ C,l RA] D, I >l SMI IND, III 
I I I ,'i. I k \1 n. Willi \\l 1 ■'., 111. 
Fl l/l'\ I RII I.. I'll. IM vs B., 111. 

Fish, Frederick P. 

F i i \ii\i.. John F., III. . 

Fl iRBES, \l LAN 



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Fostj r, C. W. H. 

p 0ST] k. SIMM K II.. 
F0RS-i 111. < rEORGJ H 

Frani is, Tappan, M 
Frani is, Georgi II. 
Fe \m is, N A. 
Gardni r, J. L. - 

Gu i i in- ki* (! ( '-- Ul 
Goodspi i i>. Mi 'i'" 1 ■ 
Gri in. Joseph F., HI 

GRl 1 XOUGH, CH M'l i • 

Haxd, I. B., Ul- - 
Hill, Wii uam H., Ill 
Hobbs, Fraxki i\ I-. 
Hoi i/i R, Charles W 
Hoi ghton, A. J-, Ul. 
Hughes, I- J., Ul. 
| wn s, Bob \< r. 

JOHXSON', Gl 0RG1 II 
JOXES, Jl ROM! . Ul. 

Tones, |i i^' |N - 
Keith, B. F., Ul. 
Kohl, J. A.. Ul. 
Lawr] si i ■ Amos A. 
Lawrence, Francis 
longyi ar, .1- m., 1 

LOW] LL, Al GUSTUS 

l.nw ell, Gey, 111. 
Lee, Hi m"> 
Lincoln, William 
Lincoln, Wii i iam 
Lyman, Thi odori 
Lyon, Wii i um H. 
Mann, < ■> orc.i S , 
M \r-ii\i i . John K.nox, 

M \-mm \l Bl RT . 

Mi Donald, William J., 
Miller, Henry F., 111. - 
Mowry, < >scar B., UL • 
Murphy, Josi ph, Ul. - 

\l \| . Bl R TON W ., IH. ■ 

Norman, Lionel J. A. 1 
I II \|MI \i>, Frederu k I 
p UN i . ROB! 1M Tr] m. 

Parki r, I'm' "' s - 
Parsons, Thom \s, 111. 

|>, n - ,. I ,i ORG! 1... Ul. 

Philbrh i.. Edv vk " S ' 

IMi in ii'. ' " l " J- "'• 
Poor, H. V. 

Kl \M I'll \KI ES K. Hi- 

Rhodi s, Sti phi n II. 
Ki ssell, Edward, 111. 
Rrssi 1 1 . Frank A., IH 
Sargent, Chari es S., 
S. mVEINl 1 urn. J. V, 1 
Seamaxs, I- M ■ "I 
Sears, W. B . I ' 
m wi 1 1. Samuel . 
mi \w. Avery T-. - 
Spencer, Chari i s \ 
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S ri irrs, Rev. Leon \ri> Kip 

S\\ \\. Kl 1 i:i \ S. 

Tiii >\i w Rev. Reuex, 111 
Thompson, Em\ \ki > VV. I'] 

Ti KM k. M \l KH i W., M. I 
T\\ I HI IK I I . GlNERY, 111 
L'NTI RSI I . F. JOSl I'll, 111 
U 1 LEY, Ch \RLES II.. Ill 
V \N 1 [ORX, Is \ \i . Ill 
W \ [ K I R, )c >S1 I'll. III. 

\\ \Y. C, Gra.w mm. Ill 
\\ i i:i;i r, John P., Ill 
W'mi'i'i e, Sherman L 
Whitm \\, Wiiii \\i. Ill 

Will IT. Nl IRM \\. III. 

Whitney, |\\ih> III 
Will IX i v. Ill \k\ M . Ill 
Wilbur, |. W.. III. 
Williams, F. II.. Ill 
W ii i iwis, Mosi s, III 
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